A gynaecologist is warning others about symptoms after discovering her own stage four colon cancer. in August 2022, Dr Lauren Juyia, 38, began feeling fatigued but thought it was just down to life until she paired it with a sense of "pelvic heaviness."
Dr Juyia, from Florida, USA, felt something was not right, and when the sense of heaviness turned into her feeling a "pelvic mass" she booked herself in for an ultrasound. During this, it was discovered that she had larger-than-normal masses by her ovary, reports The Daily Mirror.
Speaking to Good Morning America, she said: "Having a background in obstetrics, we describe size by weeks of pregnancy and so I was like, 'Oh my god, I have a 16-week-size mass.' From experience, I could tell that this was my ovary."
