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Gemma Ryder & Chiara Fiorillo

Woman's heartbreaking diagnosis after GP was '100 per cent sure she had IBS'

A woman was diagnosed with stomach cancer after her GP repeatedly assured her that her symptoms were a sign of irritable bowel syndrome.

Stacey Cochrane received the heartbreaking diagnosis at the age of 36 after developing severe abdominal pain for two months.

She was admitted to A&E at Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, on August 6 and doctors gave her morphine to treat her pain, before telling her she could go home four hours later.

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