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Mum died aged 43 from cancer after nine-month test delay

Mum died aged 43 from cancer after nine-month test delay

A Porth mum-of-three died after a nine-month wait for test results meant she didn't get life-extending treatment soon enough. An inquest was told that the pathology department had been "completely overwhelmed by demand" in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Her husband said Sarah Daniels, 43, "never gave up" fighting her aggressive cancer, but her condition became terminal.

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