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Woman Was Told She Had a Terminal Brain Tumour and Underwent 11 Years of Chemotherapy – Only to Find Out She Never Had Cancer in the First Place

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A woman who was told she had a terminal brain tumour underwent 11 years of chemotherapy – only to find out she never had cancer in the first place.  Becky Jones was just 21, newly in love and dreaming of a career in the police when doctors told her she had an aggressive brain tumour […]

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For 11 years, Becky Jones lived with the belief that she had cancer and that if she stopped treatment, she would die. She was just 21 when she was diagnosed with stage 4 glioblastoma, one of the most aggressive forms of brain cancer. She was told she had just months to live. This was followed by more than a decade of chemotherapy with the drug temozolomide (TMZ), which she says she was told she would have to take for the rest of her life. Except…

When Becky Jones was 21 years old, doctors told her she had an aggressive brain tumor and only months to live. The young woman braced herself for the worst. But after more than a decade of chemotherapy, she received shocking news: she never had cancer. Instead, she was suffering from inflammation of the brain, which could be treated in other ways.

At 21, Becky Jones learned that she had a brain tumor, but after 11 years of chemotherapy, she was told that she had never actually had cancer.

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Becky Jones, a 34-year-old British woman, filed a complaint against the hospital where she received her chemotherapy for 11 years. She blames her for having diagnosed her with a brain tumor, which she did not actually have.

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ouest-france.fr broke the news on Tuesday, September 15, 2026.
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