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Coronavirus: Doctors confused cancer with covid-19 in patient who died – Health


At the end of June, the British Beth Pattinson, 27, lost the battle against breast cancer.

Our beautiful Beth has suddenly been taken from us“Her father Craig Pattinson wrote on June 28 in a Facebook in which he did not offer further details regarding the death of his daughter.

More than a month later, Beth’s death made news again, as Craig gave details of what happened so that it does not happen to any other family.

According to the medium of English origin ‘BBC‘, the information that is known is that Doctors believed that a persistent cough he had, between March and May, was due to a possible case of coronavirus and not a recurrence of a cancer from which he had already recovered twice

(If you read us from the application, do click here to see Beth’s father’s post).

The woman would have been diagnosed with cancer for the first time in 2016 and underwent mastectomy sessions, chemotherapy and radiotherapy until she went into remission. A year later (2017), they found another tumor, so it was necessary to resume treatment, said the same English media.

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So in March, Beth consulted an oncologist, fearing that the symptoms meant the cancer had returned a third time. She continued to get worse until June 8 and she was hospitalized for pneumonia associated with covid-19.

The contagion of the virus was ruled out when the results of a test that had been practiced before he entered the Hospital Freeman, in northeast England.

Beth was not a victim of the covid, but she was a victim of the circumstances of the pandemic

As reported by the ‘BBC’, his father said that it took another week from that point for them to discover that her cancer had returned and worse than before, as it metastasized to the lungs and ovaries.

There wasn’t much else to do: Beth finally passed away on June 27, after suffering a cardiorespiratory arrest.

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After his death, a fundraiser was set up for Finn, his five-year-old son. The request was made in GoFundMe and more than 4,500 pounds sterling (more than 22 million pesos) have already been collected. That money will go into an account to be used “later in life,” the fundraiser’s organizers wrote.

Similarly, Craig told the British channel ‘ITV’ than the best way to honor your daughter’s death is to get tested for suspected cancer and recalls that “Beth was not a victim of the covid, but she was the circumstances of the pandemic.”

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It is worth remembering that the coronavirus it has killed more than 750,000 people around the world.

On the other hand, according to American Society for Cancer Research, worldwide, two million new cases of breast cancer were diagnosed in 2018.

Also, According to the same entity, more than 40,000 women died from this cause in the United States alone in 2019.

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