For eleven years, a young woman in Coventry carried the weight of a terminal diagnosis that was never true, submitting her body and her future to chemotherapy for a cancer she did not have. What she suffered from was treatable inflammation — a distinction that a single consultant failed to make, and that an entire institution failed to catch. Now more than forty patients are seeking accountability from the NHS trust, as a medical review confirms a pattern of prolonged, unjustified treatment that amounts to what one body called a betrayal of patient trust. The case asks an ancient question in a
Woman endured 11 years of chemotherapy for cancer she never had
Becky Jones endured 11 years of severe side effects including nausea, fatigue, mouth ulcers, and social isolation; other patients developed infertility and leukaemia from unnecessary treatment.