Dying mother-of-two Katie Maytum suing the NHS over delays in treatment 'would have been saved if she had seen …

Katie Maytum says treatment was delayed because she was under 35 She has terminal breast cancer and been told she has 18 months to live Cancer experts said she would have survived if not for treatment delay Court heard being on contraceptive pill also put her at higher risk Experts said pill can reduce the body's ability to fighttumours Ms Maytum is now suing for 750,000compensation

By Hannah Parry For Mailonline

Published: 04:40 EST, 26 November 2014 | Updated: 05:24 EST, 26 November 2014

A dying mother who has been told she has just 18 months to live would have been saved if she started getting cancer treatment five months earlier, a court heard.

Katie Maytum, now 35, is suing the Welsh NHS for 750,000, claiming surgeons ignored official guidelines and refused her treatment because she was too young.

The mother-of-two, who has terminal breast cancer, told the High Court in Cardiff that she was forced to wait five and half months before being seen by a specialist.

She has now been told by doctors that she has only less than two years to live, robbing her of the chance to see her children grow up.

Katie Maytum, (left) pictured outside the High Court in Cardiff, is suing the NHS after surgeon Vummiti Murali-Krishnan (right) downgraded the mother-of-two's cancer referral from urgent to routine because she was under 35

A cancer expert told the High Court in Cardiff that by causing a five-month delay, surgeons at Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board had denied Ms Maytum life-saving treatment.

Consultant surgeon Frederick Skidmore said: 'My opinion is that she would have been cured of the cancer on the balance of probabilities.

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