Louise’s Law💜:

In June 2024, my mum tragically passed away from ovarian cancer. Five years prior to this, she was diagnosed with a mature cystic teratoma, which her consultant deemed to be benign. However, this was later determined to be a misdiagnosis, it was in fact cancer.

Her cancer metastasised over the next five years and unfortunately took her life on the 26th of June 2024. Following her passing we received a report from the hospital that attempted to provide explanations such as workload and statistical data; highlighting the rarity of this cancer. These felt more to be excuses rather than explanations.

The report also stated that had this have been picked up initially by the consultant, there is every likelihood that my mum would still be here today. She could have fought this misdiagnosis herself. However, due to failure to take the correct actions, we are now left to fight on her behalf, in her honour.

While the NHS can never bring my mum back, we believe that with your support we can fight to change departmental practice. Currently, any benign test result is not looked at by any other consultant. We need to ensure all benign results are passed through to another specialist as a mandatory requirement. More must be done to prevent this from happening to others.

We are advocating for Louise’s Law; to ensure all scans and biopsies within oncology are reviewed by a second consultant/specialist by law.

All I can ask for is your time. Any signatures for this would mean the entire world to me and my family. This situation we now find ourselves in feels like a weight we can never lift. At just 24, and my brother at 22, we’ve had to face the unimaginable, losing our mum. The woman who made everything feel safe, is gone. Our grandparents have lost their daughter, as well as our Uncle who has lost his younger sister. We’ve all been swallowed by a silence we will never be able to escape.

Help us fight this with everything we have. For our Mum. 💜