‘I collapsed in a supermarket and doctors told me it was down to stress – but it was a life-changing diagnosis'

A woman who collapsed in a supermarket after being told by doctors that her symptoms were down to stress has been diagnosed with a rare stage four cancer. Mollie Mulheron, 24, had recently returned from travelling in the Galapagos Islands where she began experiencing symptoms and had been told by doctors that she was ‘too stressed’.

Despite experiencing such difficulty with breathing that she almost drowned while snorkelling, doctors had told her that the issues were ‘in her head’. However, after returning to the UK she collapsed in public and was rushed to hospital – where doctors diagnosed her with a 15cm tumour over her heart and lungs.

Now, Mollie has been given a diagnosis of stage four non-Hodgkins lymphoma and says she still can’t comprehend what’s happened. Mollie said: “That was the worst news of my life, I can’t even explain how it felt now.