Pauline Worthington, 42, was diagnosed with bowel cancer in December 2019 after spending almost 12 months going back and forth to her GP. Pauline, from Dundonald in Northern Ireland, claims that her age was one of the reasons that her concerns weren't taken seriously, because bowel cancer is normally associated with older patients. A few weeks later, she was given good news - her tumours had been reducing. After the op, she was told the surgery had been successful, but just seven weeks later, there was another blow. She said: "Bowel cancer patients don’t lose their hair normally, it just thins, but I have been on it (Chemotherapy) so long now I have lost my hair.

Source: Daily Mirror May 16, 2021 03:58 UTC