Mum's 'silent killer' bowel cancer dismissed by doctors as heartburn for a year

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A mum has spoken of her fight against a "silent killer" after her year-long stomach problems were initially put down to heartburn.

Pauline Worthington, 42, was diagnosed with bowel cancer in December 2019 after spending almost 12 months going back and forth to her GP.

Speaking to Belfast Live, she said: "I didn’t have the common symptoms of bowel cancer at the start, I had acid reflux where it was like a build-up of heartburn in my stomach and food wasn’t settling properly. "I was given tablets for the symptoms when I went to the GP, but things started getting progressively worse until I started noticing blood in my stool. "It was a constant back and forth with the GP saying I probably had haemorrhoids but they never examined me to