again, how will treating yourselves make you feel any better though? you will treat yourself but the death of your mum will always be there. You have only given limited info, but from what you have said, if your mum was having regular scans that were coming back as "negative" (for cancer) i cant understand what else you think could have happened. Its not like the prospect of prospective chemotherapy in case it was cancer is a viable option, because that could have also killed her. I understand you are upset, as i would be but please remember these clinicians did not give her cancer - it was her own body that let her down. Pleople cant be scanned evey week in case nodules turn into cancer, and every few months seems like a reasonable time period to me. forgive me if ive read you wrong. As for the a and e mistake, all i can say is that doctors are human beings first and doctors second, and as such sometimes dont get it spot on. The symptoms she was presenting with may well have suggested constipation, and if 99 times out of 100 it IS constipation then that is what a doctor would think. I dnt mean to belittle you experience, just to explain that from the facts you have given you are either going to be very frustrated or very poor