Pregnant mum's devastation after £39 test reveals heartbreaking diagnosis
manchestereveningnews.co.ukTwo courageous mums who became friends online have joined forces as they both fight to beat bowel cancer. Emma Campbell and Rebecca Clarke connected within weeks of their diagnosis when they were both aged 36.
Primary school teacher Emma connected with Rebecca after searching #bowelcancer on Instagram. The mum-of-three had been diagnosed with stage four cancer in February 2020 so finding Rebecca, who learned she had advanced bowel cancer two weeks earlier, was like finding her "guardian angel". READ MORE: Join the FREE Manchester Evening News WhatsApp community The pair were inspired to tackle bowel cancer together by campaigner, Dame Deborah James, who played a huge part in inspiring the par to take on the life-threatening disease. “She became my guardian angel,” says Emma, now 39. “I always say Becca was the best thing to come out of cancer. “I was so scared and lonely those first few weeks.
When I found her on Insta, I realised I wasn’t the only young person to get bowel cancer.” Emma was pregnant with her youngest child when she felt two sharp spasms like contractions in early 2019.
She was told it was pregnancy constipation. She gave birth that May but when the pain returned in September, she ordered a £39 bowel screening test she’d seen on Facebook, The Mirror reports.
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