Doctor discovered her own stage four cancer after experiencing two 'mild' symptoms
dailyrecord.co.ukA gynaecologist who discovered her own stage four cancer has said she was only experiencing two mild symptoms at the time.Dr Lauren Juyia found she had stage four colon cancer after she booked herself in for an ultrasound.
The doctor began feeling fatigued in August last year but had initially put it down to just part of life - until it was paired with a sense of "pelvic heaviness", which left her feeling something was wrong.
But then the sense of heaviness turned into her feeling a "pelvic mass. The scan found that she had a larger than normal mass forming by her ovary.
Dr Juyia was soon diagnosed with stage four colon cancer.She told Good Morning America: "Having a background in obstetrics, we describe size by weeks of pregnancy and so I was like, 'Oh my god, I have a 16-week-size mass.' From experience, I could tell that this was my ovary."The doctor, from Florida, US, consulted with other doctors and sought multiple opinions, and said she knew it wasn't "going to be good" when the mass grew in size from 8cm to 24cm in the space of two weeks.
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