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Irish Mirror
Irish Mirror
National
Zahna Eklund, Audience Writer & Ruth Suter & Clare McCarthy

Doctor discovered her own stage four cancer after noticing two early warning sign

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.

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