A grieving mother has told how her 35-year-old son died of cancer on his birthday after medics failed to spot tumours on two separate occasions.

Nathan Daniels was even told he “did not have cancer” by a doctor hours before a mass put so much pressure on his spine that it paralysed him. He was rushed back to Glangwili General Hospital, in Carmarthen the same day where he was finally diagnosed with lymphoma, but it was too late to do anything about it.

Mum, Nelda, 62, from Carmarthen, South Wales, who has had breast cancer three times, said she remains angry and devastated at the horrendous failings that led to her only son’s death last March. New Feature

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