A woman who thought she was at the start of the menopause was devastated to receive a much more serious diagnosis of ovarian cancer. Emma Durkin suffered hardly any symptoms related to the disease, which is known as the 'silent killer'.
Emma, 48 and a primary school teacher, thought she was starting menopause when her periods became irregular. She soon started to suffer pain and was told that she had an abscess on her right ovary, which needed to be drained.
But things were to get much more serious and mum-of-two Emma has now undergone a major operation to remove the cancer and will soon begin chemotherapy, reports ChronicleLive. After finding the abscess, doctors went on to discover a cyst on her other ovary, which was removed with keyhole surgery. But it was a biopsy taken during the procedure that found the cancer.
