A young grandma whose abdominal pains were misdiagnosed as being “menopausal” was later given a diagnosis of a rare cancer that affects just one in every two million people.
Eve Lauder, a 47-year-old police officer, was shocked when a doctor told her in December of 2020 that she had advanced goblet cell carcinoma (GCC), a a rare tumour typically occurring in the appendix.
Given just six to 12 months to live, Eve, who is single and is mum to Tiah, 23, and grandma to Obie, who is two and a half, vowed to beat the odds and made a list of things she wanted to do and see.
