A young woman was diagnosed with a rare stomach cancer just months after doctors shrugged off her symptoms as being 'women's problems'. 'I went to hospital because I was extremely anaemic, they sent me home and blamed it on women's problems. Symptoms can present as feelings of fullness, abdominal pain, chest pain and nausea, all symptoms experienced by Miss Bayliss. In Miss Bayliss' case, surgeons also had to remove 70 per cent of her stomach, which she thinks could have been avoided if her initial concerns had been taken seriously. Miss Bayliss said: 'I had a scan at the end of September thinking "it's just another scan".

Source: Daily Mail January 08, 2026 03:30 UTC