A gynaecologist who discovered her own stage 4 colon cancer has said she was only experiencing two mild symptoms at the time - and is now sharing the warning signs to help educate others.
Dr Lauren Juyia, 38, began feeling fatigued in August last year but had initially put it down to just being a part of life, until it was paired with a sense of "pelvic heaviness" which left her with a gut feeling that something was wrong.
And when the sense of heaviness turned into her feeling a "pelvic mass" she booked herself in for an ultrasound, where it was discovered she had larger-than-normal masses by her ovary.
