Doctor: 'Jade could have been saved'

A doctor who treated Jade Goody in hospital has claimed that the reality star could have been saved.

Dr Ann Coxon, a consultant physician at London's Harley Street medical centre, has called for an NHS inquiry after insisting that the late star's cancer should have been spotted earlier.

"If the hospital had made the diagnosis on Jade's first admission, she would be alive today," Coxon told The Mirror.

Goody was admitted to hospital four times in a year suffering internal bleeding following a miscarriage in June 2007.

"If a woman complains of abnormal bleeding and has a history of abnormal cells at the age of 16 and two courses of laser treatment, the possibility of malignant change must be paramount in the doctor's mind. On all four of her admissions to hospital, nobody did her smear, nobody looked at her cervix," Coxon continued.

"On her last admission she was told her ultrasound was normal. It can't have been. The tumour was the size of a large lemon. Jade just accepted that people make mistakes. I do not have the same forgiving nature.

"There should have been an inquiry. As far as I know, there hasn't. Jade should not have had to pay this price."

Goody was diagnosed with cervical cancer while appearing on the Indian Big Brother in August 2008. She passed away on March 22.

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