A gynaecologist who discovered her own stage four cancer has said she was only experiencing two mild symptoms at the time.
Dr Lauren Juyia found she had stage four colon cancer after she booked herself in for an ultrasound. The doctor began feeling fatigued in August last year but had initially put it down to just part of life - until it was paired with a sense of "pelvic heaviness", which left her feeling something was wrong. But then the sense of heaviness turned into her feeling a "pelvic mass.
The scan found that she had a larger than normal mass forming by her ovary. Dr Juyia was soon diagnosed with stage four colon cancer.
