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Edinburgh Live
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Gemma Ryder & Jacob Farr

Scottish woman diagnosed with incurable cancer after being told symptoms were IBS

A Scottish woman who was diagnosed with Irritable Bowel Syndrome has told how she had been diagnosed with terminal cancer after begging for a scan.

Stacey Cochrane, says that she visited A&E twice and had several meetings with her GP after suffering from extreme abdominal pain over a span of two months during the summer.

It was not until she visited Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy on September 21 and she anxiously pleaded with medical professionals to give her a scan, that she was diagnosed with stomach cancer.

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