A teenager suddenly started losing weight and it turned out she had a life-threatening illness and needed emergency surgery.
Joy McCabe, a mum from Crosby, Merseyside, first started experiencing symptoms when she was 18. The trainee fashion buyer was about to move in with her boyfriend and start a new job when she noticed the differences in her body, reports the Liverpool Echo.
Joy said: "It started in about November 2017 and I started getting symptoms like blood when I was going to the toilet. "And I was needing to go to the toilet more frequently, but obviously it was something I really didn't want to go to the doctors about. "I put it off and put it off until I started getting really poorly and losing weight.
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