Mum given 'eight weeks to live' as family claims doctors mistook cancer for depression
A mother has been given just eight weeks to live with her heartbroken family claiming doctors misdiagnosed her cancer as depression.
Tina Locke, from Wales in the UK, suffered severe stomach and chest pain for two years, but said she was only given antidepressants for anxiety, fibromyalgia and depression.
The 43-year-old's family said in the two years it took to get a diagnosis, Ms Locke's cancer had spread to her lymph nodes and now her "only chance of survival'" is $500,000 immunotherapy treatment in Germany, The Mirror reported.
"This year she was sadly diagnosed with stomach cancer," Ms Locke's husband Jason said in a video filmed as a plea to raise money for the treatment.
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"We took two years to find out what was wrong with her and now they're telling us there's nothing they can do to save her life.
"It has absolutely devastated my two sons and the whole family."
Mr Locke said his wife "begged" for more tests from doctors, but was not taken seriously because she "looked so well."
The mother-of-two has signet ring cell adenocarcinoma and if she undergoes chemotherapy there is a "good chance the tumour could explode."
Mr Locke has criticised the NHS, saying he will "camp and protest on the steps of the Assembly until the money is given to send her to Germany."
The family have managed to raise just under $15,000 through crowdfunding.
