// BBC UK NEWS — CRONACA
I had 11 years of chemotherapy for a cancer I didn't have
Becky Jones was told she had months to live despite no tumour showing up in scans
Becky Jones was just 21 when she was told she had a terminal brain tumour and months to live.
She had not long met her partner and dreamed of a career in policing, but suddenly the future was looking bleak.
The diagnosis, by an experienced cancer consultant, led to 11 years of chemotherapy treatment which changed her life. She regularly felt sick, she was unable to take part in family events, her career was curtailed and she felt constantly "on eggshells".
Now 33, she has recently learned she never had cancer at all but an inflammation of the brain that could have been treated with steroids.
The mother of two is one of more than 40 patients taking legal action against University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW) NHS Trust due to prolonged or unnecessary cancer treatment.
"I was told time and time again without the chemotherapy I would die," she said.
As a young woman, Jones says consultant Prof Ian Brown at University Hospital, Coventry, told her she would need to take chemotherapy drug temozolomide (TMZ) for the rest of her life.
This is despite guidelines recommending six cycles over six months.
When she questioned multiple scans that did not seem to show evidence of a tumour, she says the consultant told her it would not be "visible to the naked eye".