£6,000 in damages over false cancer diagnosis

A mother of two who was told she had just months to live after she was wrongly diagnosed with a fatal type of cancer has received £6,000 in damages for the emotional trauma caused. She was told that she had an inoperable cancerous tumour on her liver and had just two months to two years to live. In fact the growth was a haemangioma, the most common type of benign liver tumour. She had previously suffered breast cancer.