Mum s cancer symptoms mistaken for heartburn as she spent year fighting for diagnosis
Pauline Worthington, 42, said: I was reaching the end of my tether with the GP and demanded a referral to see a specialist.
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Pauline Worthington with her children (Image: Belfast Live)
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Dundonald mum s determined fight against silent killer bowel cancer
Pauline Worthington has been undergoing chemotherapy since August last year and is trying to spread awareness about the disease
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Pauline with her children
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A Dundonald mum who has been undergoing chemotherapy for over a year has described her battle against the silent killer bowel cancer.
Patients diagnosed with a BRAF-mutated bowel cancer in Scotland will have a new treatment available to them if the disease is found to have spread PATIENTS in Scotland with a rare but particularly deadly form of colorectal cancer will have access to a new life-extending therapy on the NHS for the first time. The Scottish Medicines Consortium has given the go ahead for Braftovi to be used in combination with cetuximab in patients whose cancer has the BRAF V600 genetic mutation. This is present in around 15 per cent of patients with early-stage colorectal cancer and 6% of those whose disease has spread, with patients in this latter category typically surviving just four to six months from diagnosis.
This week it served up the two 200,000th rasher of nitrite and nitrate preservative-free bacon. Cooked breakfast lovers, including truckers, can munch their way through a great many rashers in a year. But the more they eat containing these preservatives, the more likely they are to increase their risk of bowel and other cancers, according to the World Health Organisation. The team at the Pit Stop, just off Junction Seventeen of the M4 in Wiltshire, who are visited by hundreds of trucker and local community customers every day, decided to serve up only locally sourced bacon completely free of a them