Filmed as part of JTV Cancer Support’s One Week In Cancer 2014. Daniel was 16 years old when he was diagnosed with Osteosarcoma after originally receiving a diagnosis of growing pains from his GP. Daniel talks about the lead up […]
Films Tagged: Misdiagnosis (13 films)
Constanze talks about how she’s struggled to get her life back on track after cancer. Before cancer Constanze was studying at Oxford University but during her first year, Constanze started to feel unwell and began visiting her GP who misdiagnosed […]
FYSOT ’14 – Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
Kenny spent 18 months trying to convince his GP that something wasn’t right. Kenny even changed his GP in the hope to get a diagnosis for his ongoing symptoms that were starting to affected not only his life but his […]
Diagnosis Battle
Keely was pregnant with her son when she first started noticing that she was bleeding and started to have pains in her back and stomach. Despite being checked numerous times, Doctors misdiagnosed Keely with an inflamed cervix but Keely was […]
Late Diagnosis with Keely Devine
Meet Lauren who has been diagnosed with Papillary Thyroid Cancer. Initially Lauren was misdiagnosed after finding a lump on her neck, but as the lump grew Lauren went back to her GP who gave her a two week cancer referral. […]
The Papillary Thyroid Cancer Diary
UCLH patient Anthony was misdiagnosed three times before he finally got a diagnosis. Anthony knew something was seriously wrong when he woke one morning and couldn’t move the right side of his body. In February, Anthony was told he had […]
Anthony – My Story So Far
jimmyteens.tv and ex-brain tumour patient Peter Wilkinson sets out on a year long journey to find out how things can improve when it comes to brain tumours. Peter investigates the need for more research, how vital it is for early […]
All They Need Is A Scan
Filmed at Find Your Sense of Tumour 2012 – jimmyteens.tv very own EVA (Evaluation Video Apparatus) meets three young ladies; Emily, Ellie and Chanel who have all been diagnosed with breast cancer.
Tales from EVA : Talking Breast Cancer
Here we meet Charlie who was studying for her GCSEs at the time of her brain tumour diagnosis. Her diagnosis was a long time coming as she first started experiencing headaches at the age of 11, something that other people […]
Meet Charlie
Natasha was misdiagnosed for nine months and put on numerous tablets for her headaches, sickness, tiredness and dramatic vision changes. Her GP put down her symptoms as stress as 16-year-old Natasha was studying for her GCSE’s at boarding school. After […]
Meet Natasha
A revealing film on the important topic that is late diagnosis, young people share their experience on how doctors continued to miss their symptoms and how these impacted on their daily lives.
Late Diagnosis
Hannah Merridale bravely takes to the stage to share her story, starting with a series of breathing problems and culminating in the discovery of a cancerous tumour in her lung, ultimately leading to its collapse and then removal, after five […]