Doctors failed to diagnose my cancer, says Duke's ex-girlfriend

THE former girlfriend of the Duke of York, Koo Stark, has told how several top doctors in London failed to diagnose her breast cancer, advising her there was “no urgency” to remove a lump.

Ms Stark, 46, said she made repeated trips to different Harley Street surgeries and hospitals in the capital but was only told she had cancer by a doctor she saw on August 2 in the US, where she is now being treated.

Two weeks earlier in Britain, faulty X-ray equipment meant a mammogram examination had to be done nine times - and when the biopsy results came through doctors said her lump was “not even pre-cancerous.”