Mum given months to live after doctors wrongly blamed cancer symptoms on Covid jab and told her she had an STI

A nurse manager has been given just months to live after medics wrongly dismissed her cancer symptoms as side-effects of having the Covid jab.

Katie Pritchard, 37, is now having to crowdfund £200,000 for private treatment after she was twice misdiagnosed before finding out she had cervical cancer. The mum-of-two went to her GP after finding a lump but was told there was 'nothing to worry about' and her symptoms may have been down to the Pfizer vaccine.

She was also told that it may be a prolapsed bladder from having children and was left insulted by another suggestion it was an STI despite 17 years with her partner. Unhappy with her treatment, Katie independently scheduled an appointment with a gynaecologist and was diagnosed with cervical cancer later that same month.

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But she was then forced to wait an agonising three months for her treatment to begin - by which point the cancer had spread. Katie began five weeks of radiotherapy, chemotherapy and brachytherapy in April last year and was told the treatment was a success.

But, in December, after undergoing further scans, she received the heartbreaking news that her cancer had returned and she has now been given months to live. At the start of this year, Katie was diagnosed with lung, shoulder, spine, and pelvic cancer and started palliative chemotherapy three weeks ago.

Katie will now tie the knot with her long term partner Tom Cronin, 35, a teacher, in an emotional ceremony next Monday (February 27). The couple are also trying to raise money to fund a potentially life-prolonging drug not available on the NHS so they can spend more time together as a family.

Katie, of Tysoe,