Man left with eye protruding from head after noticing small bruise on his face
A 24-year-old who thought his eye might “fall out of (his) head” said he visited hospitals nine times before being told he had a rare cancerous tumour on his optic nerve.
Farid Oladapo, a sports teaching assistant who lives in Sanderstead, south Croydon, was diagnosed with embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma – a type of soft tissue cancer – in June 2022 after noticing bruising and swelling on his right eye.
But he said he visited multiple different hospitals nine times before receiving the diagnosis while in his final year studying International Politics at Brunel University London.
A spokesperson for Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has since said that Farid “was diagnosed and cared for in accordance with best practice national referral to treatment guidelines”.
Farid said his “mind was spiralling” after the diagnosis and he soon underwent chemotherapy and radiotherapy – and at one point, he thought he was at “death’s door” due to experiencing complications during treatment in
