Primary school teacher, 35, who died of kidney cancer was told by GP her stomach pains were caused by a food intolerance and to 'cut out bread'

Claire Tomlinson, 35, from Southport, (left) died last Tuesday after battling renal cell carcinoma in her left kidney since February. 


The primary school teacher's GP initially advised her to cut out certain foods after she complained of stomach pains in September last year - but the cramps continued. But once she had been diagnosed it was too late - the cancer had spread to her lungs and brain and chemotherapy was unsuccessful. And now her parents, John, 66, (pictured with her on her graduation day, right) and Gill, 62, have called for doctors to do more to prevent other lives from being lost. Mr Tomlinson said: 'We're not trying to say she could have been cured, we just think that the treatment should have been more urgent.'