Teenage dancer has leg amputated after doctors failed to spot cancer

By Murray Wardrop Published: 7:30AM GMT twenty-five February 2010

fifteen year old Shannon Corr from Whittlesey nearby Peterborough Photo: MASONS NEWS SERVICE

Shannon Corr, 15, regularly visited GPs for over dual months angry of agonising heedfulness in her right knee and shin that left her struggling to walk.

But doctors told her she was pang from a disease that customarily affects teenage boys who fool around football and flourishing pains, advising her to go home and rest.

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After GPs refused to impute Shannon to sanatorium her mom Jeannetta Swift, 44, rushed her to A&E and simulated she had depressed over so she could be entirely examined.

Doctors rught away speckled a problem, but by the time osteosarcoma, a singular bone cancer, was diagnosed it had widespread to her leg"s soft tissue and they were forced to amputate.

Shannon yesterday cursed the GPs who treated with colour her for unwell to take her censure seriously, robbing her of the possibility to save the limb.

She claims that if they had held the cancer earlier they could have operated to remove the influenced bone but carrying to amputate her leg on top of the knee.

Shannon, of Whittlesey, Cambs, said: "I wish people to know that they need to pull their doctors to get them the diagnosis they need to forestall this function to any one else.

"The suffering was so bad, it was awful. But the GPs only thought I was a teenage lady angry and I even proposed to think the suffering contingency be in my head.

"If they had taken me some-more severely afterwards I competence have been diagnosed earlier and things could have been different."

The cheerleader began to experience suffering in Jun last year but primarily thought she had postulated an damage from dancing.

She initial went to a GP in late Jul and was told she had Osgood-Schlatter"s disease, a unpleasant knee condition usual in teenage boys who fool around sports similar to football.

On 3 successive visits to GPs she was told she had flourishing heedfulness and suggested to rest.

Specialists diagnosed the cancer after her A&E revisit but notwithstanding chemotherapy, doctors were forced to amputate her leg last month.

Shannon added: "I cried at initial when I saw my leg. I didn"t wish to lose my leg, but in the finish I realised that it was what I had to do to survive.

"I"d love to go behind to dancing one day but I know it won"t ever be the same as it"s going tough to be as seemly as before."

Shannon, a part of of the Posh All Stars Cheerleading group and an achieved jazz and ballet dancer, is right away watchful to be propitious with a prosthetic prong so she can sense to travel again.

The family is right away deliberation receiving authorised movement opposite New Queen Street Surgery in Whittlesey where Shannon was seen 4 times by GPs.

Christine Macleod, healing executive of NHS Cambridgeshire PCT, pronounced the certitude was unknowingly of the case.

She said: "We take any concerns over diagnosis really seriously.

"We would be happy to speak to the family approach about their practice and would inspire them to get in hit with the internal Patient Advice & Liaison Service."