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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Susie Beever

Woman told to 'stop being lazy' by doctors as she couldn't stop sleeping had CANCER

A young woman says she was turned away by doctors because she couldn't stop sleeping and told she was just lazy - only to find out she had thyroid cancer.

Courtney Nettleton, 21, first visited her GP as a teenager over concerns that she was feeling tired all the time.

She claims her symptoms were initially fobbed off as "teenage laziness" but her routine of sleeping up to 14 hours a day turned out to be something much more sinister.

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