Doctors said fatty lump was a 'harmless lipoma' and it was rare cancer

It took Melissa Fellows a decade to get doctors to take a painful fatty lump on her stomach seriously - and when they finally did, they told her it was a rare cancer that would eventually kill her. The mother-of-three, from Hull, East Yorks, first complained about a lump in 2009 but was told it was a harmless fatty lump called a lipoma - but despite it growing and causing her extreme pain,  it was not properly examined until 2019, by which time it was too late.