13/05/2026
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A mum battling cancer has told of her horror after wrongly being given the all-clear following a scanning blunder.
Carla Bell, 48, was devastated when she was diagnosed with colon cancer.
After surgery and months of chemotherapy she had a scan at Forth Valley Hospital, in Larbert, and was given “the news we had all been dreaming of” – she was free of the disease.
“We celebrated that moment with everything we had, believing the worst was behind us,” said the mum of two, from Polmont, near Falkirk.
But she has told the Daily Record how “much to the shock of the surgeons who treated me” she fell ill again.
And while back on treatment, she discovered mistakes had been made with the prescribing of her chemotherapy and received an apology from hospital bosses.
But worse was to come after mother-of-two Carla and her husband Graeme, 50, sought a second opinion from the private Cleveland Clinic.
“Their review of the ‘all-clear’ scans revealed the cancer had still been there,” Carla said.
“Because it went undetected for five critical months, the situation has got far more complex.”
