Judith Rowlands
Judith Rowlands, from Anglesey, contacted her GP when she started bleeding after the menopause. She was prescribed HRT but when the bleeding continued, she knew something was wrong, as her mother had also been diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Judith was eventually diagnosed with endometrial cancer and underwent a hysterectomy.
However, after the hysterectomy Judith experienced terrible pain starting in her stomach and affecting her leg so badly, she couldn’t walk.
“I kept saying, ‘I think I’ve still got cancer.’” said Judith in her testimony to the Committee.
However, her doctors felt this wasn’t the case, and insisted that they would not expect to see that type of cancer come back.
Despite being referred to a pain clinic, Judith continued to experience excruciating pain and was finally sent for a scan after attending same-day emergency care for the pain. The scan revealed that the cancer had returned and was now incurable.
“The cancer is in my pelvis, I have two larger tumours and they are exactly where the pain has been all along, exactly there,” said Judith in her evidence. “I went into that hospital healthy, apart from this cancer that we were going to get rid of, and I came out and I’d lost everything.”
Judith wanted her story to be told in the hope it can prevent other women going through what she has. Judith passed away in May 2023, shortly after her video was shown to the Committee.
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