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\"LeilaLeila Evans<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Nansi Alys was three when she was told a cancerous lesion was a wart<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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A child with a cancerous lesion on her toe was mistakenly diagnosed as having a wart.<\/p>\n

Nansi Alys was three when her mum, Leila Evans, first asked doctors about a growth on her foot. <\/p>\n

Two years later, Nansi, from Criccieth in Gwynedd, was diagnosed with sarcoma – a type of cancer which about 5,300 people are diagnosed with in the UK every year.<\/p>\n

“The doctors should have listened to me. I\u2019m her mother, and a mother knows best,” said Ms Evans.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ms Evans first took Nansi to see a GP in May 2021, where she was told the growth was a wart.<\/p>\n

But Ms Evans was unconvinced, and the lump kept growing. <\/p>\n

In June 2022, she sought the opinion of another GP, who said it was a benign cyst. <\/p>\n

The following year, in July 2023, Nansi had an operation at Alder Hey Children\u2019s Hospital in Liverpool to remove the growth.<\/p>\n

Tests were then carried out to determine what it was.<\/p>\n

After a six-week wait, the family was given the news that Nansi had desmoid-type fibromatosis<\/a>, a rare type of soft tissue sarcoma cancer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\"LeilaLeila Evans<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Two years later she was told she had a rare type of sarcoma<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Leila remains disappointed that she was not listened to. <\/p>\n

“I would have liked it if they had listened to me,” she said.<\/p>\n

“I knew it wasn’t a wart. A mother knows when something is wrong with their children.”<\/p>\n

But the diagnosis still came as a shock.<\/p>\n

“Before Nansi was diagnosed I had not heard of the condition,” Leila said.<\/p>\n

“So getting the news a year ago everything was running through my mind: that my daughter has cancer, what is going to happen next, what is the treatment?<\/p>\n

“It was a really upsetting time for all the family.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

What is sarcoma?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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