Dr Lauren Juyia, from the US, was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2022, and now she's urging people to be aware of the early warning signs of the disease after she spotted it herself
A doctor who diagnosed herself with stage 4 colon cancer has revealed the two key warning signs that led her to make the discovery. Dr Lauren Juyia, a gynaecologist, was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2022 at the age of 37 after she noticed the signs herself.
It was during this scan that larger-than-normal masses near her ovary were discovered, leading to her colon cancer diagnosis. Speaking to Good Morning America, she said: "Having a background in obstetrics, we describe size by weeks of pregnancy, and so I was like, 'Oh my God, I have a 16-week-size mass'. From experience, I could tell that this was my ovary."
Dr Juyia revealed she had "never seen anything benign" grow so rapidly, which led her to suspect cancer, initially thinking it was ovarian due to the location of the masses. By September 2022, she found herself in surgery to remove the growths that had spread to her ovaries, uterus, omentum, appendix, and even her abdomen.
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