A cancer diagnosis changed the life of Megan Royle, a woman who made a career as a professional makeup artist. The information didn’t stop her, she accepted what the medicine prescribed, but two years later she found out that she had never been sick.

“When they first told me I had cancer and that I needed surgery to remove it and treatment that could affect my fertility, my approach was simply to do what was appropriate,” Bíobío published.

Speaking to the BBC, Megan said she went to an appointment with a dermatologist at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in 2019, “for a strange mole that had appeared on her arm.”

He was concerned that “it had grown, itched and scabbed.” They performed a biopsy and Megan Royle “was diagnosed with melanoma, a form of skin cancer.” The news reached him when he was 29 years old.

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With that diagnosis, she was referred to the specialist cancer unit at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London. The BBC reported that the disease was confirmed there.

It was then decided to have her undergo surgery to ‘remove the cancer and surrounding tissue’.

They suggested chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatment. The BBC also noted: “She underwent a total of nine cycles of immunotherapy and her eggs were frozen.”

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Megan returned from London to East Yorkshire, where she is originally from. In that English county he had to go to a hospital, where they analyzed his file and his scans. During this process, the wrong diagnosis was discovered.

The news made a great impression on him. He was “in total shock,” he described to the BBC.

“I believed I had cancer for two years, I went through all the treatments and then they told me there was no cancer,” said the makeup artist, who said it took her a while to process the new news.

“To this day, I have had no explanation for how or why it happened,” Megan said less than two weeks ago.

After the questions, the possibility of a lawsuit came to mind.

The BBC reported that “Megan Royle has won an out-of-court settlement from the two NHS trusts with Hull-based Hudgell Solicitors.” (National Health Service, the healthcare system) of London involved.

The UK network learned from The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust: “We would like to sincerely apologize to Megan Royle for the distress caused by her experience at our trust.”

Megan is still surprised by the extent of the medical error and did not hesitate to explain how she feels: “You would think the immediate emotion would be relief, and in a way it was, but I would say that the main emotions were frustration and anger.”

(JO)