jodie moriarty

Review of Private Patient Suite, Royal M...

Completely misdiagnosed my mother in law for the t...

Completely misdiagnosed my mother in law for the type of cancer that the Marsden were over 90% sure she had. It took from April 2019 to end of June 2019 for them to actually determine that she has a very common cancer. Within this time frame they had also confirmed she would not have very long to live, very bluntly too by guessing from scanning what this type of cancer was that they thought she had.

Only by chance they said they would do another biopsy to be sure it was this and turned out it is a common cancer.

As she has type of cancer that is treatable (if caught early), they basically discharged her from their care and transferred to our local hospital. During this time it was a lot of work getting all information across to our local hospital.

Both our local and Kings College Hospital are rather confused as to how the Marsden got this so wrong or even thought she had this rare type of Sarcoma.

I definitely think that if they noticed the exact cancer it was from the beginning, this cancer would have been treated and she would be in remission now.

Being as this is one of the UK's leading cancer specialist hospitals, I cannot comprehend how they managed to unidentify a common cancer.

Appalling hospital service and no support either throughout our time at this hospital.