GPs sent me away 13 times and dismissed me as neurotic. Now I’ve been told that I am dying of cancer

A mother has been given 18 months to live after doctors failed to diagnose her cancer more than a dozen times.

Ruth McDonagh, 46, pleaded with GPs for two years to test her for the disease but was repeatedly ‘fobbed off’, and dismissed as ‘neurotic’.

Medical records show she visited GPs 13 times complaining of symptoms before she was finally diagnosed with bowel cancer.