Megan Royle, 33, from Beverley, underwent surgery after being wrongly told she had skin cancer.
Megan Royle spent two years being treated for skin cancer before it was discovered to be a misdiagnosisA woman has spoken of her "complete shock" at being misdiagnosed with cancer and undergoing surgery when she never had the condition at all.As part of her treatment, she underwent immunotherapy and her eggs were frozen due to the risk to her fertility.
Ms Royle, from Beverley, said: "You just can't really believe something like this can happen, and still to this day I've not had an explanation as to how and why it happened. Ms Royle, a theatrical make-up artist living in London, was referred by her GP for a dermatology review at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in 2019.A biopsy was carried out and Ms Royle, then aged 29, was told melanoma - a type of skin cancer - had been identified.The diagnosis was confirmed and she subsequently had the "cancer" and surrounding tissue surgically removed.
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