English mother misdiagnosed with tennis elbow two years ago dies of breast cancer

[Northerner]

It wasn't until two years after a doctor's misdiagnosis that 46-year-old Jill Goodrum found a bone-like lump near one of her breasts. Only then did she learn that she not only had breast cancer but that it had gone undetected for up to four years.

A beloved mother of five has died after her tennis elbow diagnosis turned out to be breast cancer — two years too late.

Jill Goodrum, a mother and grandmother of four from Plymouth, England, had visited her doctor in 2011 over pain in her arms but was wrongly sent away with what was described as just a minor strain, The Plymouth Herald reported.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/english-mom-dies-breast-cancer-misdiagnosis-article-1.1814786

 

[robert@fm]

Apart from the fact that the correct name for the condition is "lateral epicondylitis" (because it's an inflammation of the lateral epicondyle tendon), (though given that name (which is hardly memorable to non-doctors) I can understand why some prefer the inaccurate term "tennis elbow", although the condition isn't necessarily an RSI, let alone induced by playing tennis), to those suffering it (such as me at the moment) it is hardly a "minor" condition — it's excruciatingly painful.

Still, to have even a bad condition misdiagnosed when the problem is actually far worse is terrible.