Trust's 'neglect' over patient's lung cancer

A coroner has warned South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust over its “neglect” of a patient, after failing to identify her fatal cancer sooner, despite monitoring her condition for more than three years.

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Anne Lorraine Dyson, 68, died in St Benedict's Hospice in Sunderland on February 24, after being diagnosed with terminal metastatic lung cancer some four months earlier.

She had been under investigation for lung disease by the Trust since September 2021, while scans showed she had an increased growth in the organ from October 2023.

A CT scan was wrongly interpreted on March 25, 2024, which meant diagnosis of a malignancy in her lung was delayed by many months, by which point it could no longer be successfully treated.