A woman who thought her acid reflux was down to drinking too much alcohol was shocked to discover she actually had incurable cancer.
Georgia Ford said she went to the doctors after developing a "choking" cough last April and sickness soon after, but a GP put it down to the amount of alcohol she was drinking as a university student and prescribed her stomach-lining tablets. But when the 20-year-old's symptoms, which also included weight loss and back pain, continued to worsen over the course of several months she continued to return to the doctors.
After countless appointments, Georgia was told the devastating news she had a kidney cancer called papillary renal cell carcinoma in November. The law student said her life was "turned upside down" when she was later told the cancer had also spread to her lungs, liver, lymph nodes and bones - and that it was incurable.
