A young woman who was diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer after mistaking her symptoms for a urinary tract infection (UTI) has issued an urgent warning about the symptoms everyone should be aware of.
Ellie Wilcock was just 25 when she was diagnosed with the illness. She had initially attributed her sharp abdominal pains and bouts of fatigue to a UTI.
Despite the pain being localised to one side of her abdomen, doctors suspected issues with her reproductive system or an ovarian cyst.
However, the diagnosis was far more serious - Ellie had the most severe grade of cancer, which had spread throughout her body.
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