'If it can happen to me it can happen to anyone.' 9News
A nurse is urging people not to ignore symptoms that could be bowel cancer after being diagnosed with the disease.
While scans showed something was wrong, she was rushed to surgery that night to see exactly what it was. She's being supported by her partner Jason and her boss at a drug and alcohol rehab centre in Lilyfield, Carolyn Stubley, who is raising funds for her.She's urging anybody with any symptoms, however insignificant they may seem, to see their GP.While Aussies over 50 are offered routine bowel cancer testing, younger people are not.Bowel cancer is Australia's second deadliest overall cancer overall, after lung cancer.
Associate Professor Graham Newstead, Bowel Cancer Australia Medical Director said young people need to know the symptoms.
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