Mam died due to cancer screening reporting errors
The family of a mother, who died of cervical cancer, has been awarded unknown damage to unknown results after being incorrectly stated twice.
In March 2018, after his death at the age of 38, the misconception of Louis Gladele’s cervical screening results was accepted by the university hospitals of the Lecester NHS Trust.
An internal review in 2017 found that four years separated samples were not enough to produce reliable results, but neither Ms. Gladeale – a mam for three boys – nor her relatives were told about “insufficient” samples, while she was still alive.
Her family is now given an unknown payment, the trust had “disastrous results” with apologizing for their mistakes.
Ms. Gladele, from Kosington in Lessestershire, was detected cervical cancer two years before her death. It was too late to perform surgery till that stage.
Two cervical screening tests conducted in 2008 and 2012 were deemed to be negative as negative.
This meant that over a period of four years, she was misinformed about her health when she was developing cervical cancer, and the opportunity was passed to treat pre-cancer cells.
In fact, after the 2017 internal review of the trust, both samples were found “insufficient”, and it was found that Ms. Gladele should have been invited back to repeat the tests.
Ms. Gladel’s sisters, Laura and Claire Gladele, say her grief has been complicated to avoid her sister’s death.
Laura, 43, said: “Her death was eligible and is actually difficult for us.
“It would not have developed in cancer, it was remembered in 2008 or 2012.
“If she treated for cell abnormalities even before she developed in cancer, she would not have died.”
Claire insisted that the test results were misrepresented and due to his death “is incredibly difficult to live together”.
The 40 -year -old said: “This is something that we probably think about most days, if not every day.”
The sisters described Lewis as dedicated to their three boys, who were two, 11 and 13 years old when they lost their mother.
“The family was everything for him,” he said.
Lewis began to feel unwell in late 2015, experienced pain, abnormal bleeding and unexpected weight loss.
By February next year, she was so concerned about her health that she paid privately for an ultrasound scan.
Further investigation was caused by the findings, and a biopsy provided by NHS diagnosed cervical cancer in March.
Loise undergoing chemotherapy, radiotherapy and brachytherapy – which is internal radiation treatment. Initially, she recovered well but developed new symptoms after a few months.
In late 2016, doctors told him that the disease was the terminal.
With charity, Lewis traveled abroad for immunotherapy in Germany, but did not eventually stop the fatal spread of cancer. He died at Loros Dharamshala in Lester.
Trust Chief Executive Officer Richard Mitchell said: “I am deeply sorry how we used to care and communicate with Lewis and for disastrous consequences.
“Those types of errors in Lewis’s care are rare, and there have been significant improvements in cervical screening since 2019 when the human papillomavirus (HPV) test was introduced at the national level.
“Locally, after an investigation in Lewis’s care, we have strengthened our processes to share the findings of the cervical screening quality audit to ensure timely and open communication.
“We understand that Lewis’s family may still have questions and we have reached to offer a meeting.”
After the trust of the trust, the sisters of Lewis stressed that they would encourage all women to go to one. cervical screening,
NHS states that the cervical screening examines a sample of cells from your cervix for some type of human papillomavirus (HPV).
These types of HPVs can cause abnormal changes in cells in your cervix and are called the “high risk” type of HPV.
If high -risk types of HPV are found during screening, samples of cells are also tested for abnormal cell changes.
If abnormal cells are found, they can be treated, so they do not get a chance to convert to cervical cancer.
The sisters of Lewis said that they intend to raise the trust of a meeting.
Clair said: “We have unanswered questions – how and why Lewis was given false information after his smears and why, after his diagnosis, when the mistakes were exposed, the family was not told?
“The most difficult part is looking at Lewis’s three boys without his mother. It is a shocking effect – the effect of being wrong has been terrible.”
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