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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Nia Price & Paul Britton

Woman, 25, diagnosed with cancer nicknamed her tumour 'SUBWAY' as it was a foot long

A former teacher whose stomach became so big students started 'rumours' she was pregnant was stunned to discover she had a giant tumour - and went on to nickname it 'SUBWAY' because it was a foot long.

Danielle Wright, 25, told how she first noticed a change in her bowel movements together with bloating after eating certain foods, lower back pain and fatigue, in September, 2020. She said she spent well over a year going back and forward to the doctors, who put her symptoms down to irritable bowel syndrome, Crohn's disease, food intolerances, her contraceptive pill and even stress.

But the former geography teacher said by March this year her bloating became permanent and she ballooned so massively that people thought she was expecting and kept asking 'when are you due?'

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