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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Bryony Gooch

‘I’m 34 and thought I just had stomach cramps – but it was stage 4 cancer’

When Kirsty Laing started noticing a “twinge” in her stomach last summer, she never imagined it might be bowel cancer.

The 34-year-old mother, who works in the radiology department at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, Scotland, realised fairly early on that these stomach cramps were not quite right. But what concerns her is that some people may not see this symptom as out of the ordinary.

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