Thursday 13 October 2022 01:13 PM Wales mother faces having leg, hip and pelvis removed after lump in foot turned ... trends now

An ex-NHS worker may be forced to have her hip, part of her pelvis and the rest of her leg removed after doctors dismissed a cancerous lump in her foot.

Sharon Walker, of Nant-y-moel, Wales, noticed the lump on her left foot in January last year and decided to visit her GP after becoming concerned.

The mother-of-two was diagnosed with lymphoedema — a chronic tissue-swelling condition — but she knew something wasn't right and asked a colleague to have a look at it.

They told the 53-year-old to have a scan, which in June revealed that she had a soft-tissue sarcoma — a rare form of cancer.

In August that year, she had surgery to remove the 7cm (2.75in) lump and had a skin graft from her arm attached to the foot.

But doctors did not get all of it and the disease continued to spread up her leg. She found another lump in the lymphnodes in her groin around Christmas.

Ms Walker had to have her foot amputated — but even that did not slow the spread, despite having chemotherapy.

She had to leave her role as a secretary in a hospital diabetes department because of her condition, which has left her wheelchair-bound.

Ms Walker moved back in with her ex-husband because he has a downstairs toilet and her student daughter Ffion, 23, acts as her full-time carer.