A woman’s suspected endometriosis turned out to be a cancer so rare it required nine of her organs to be removed during ‘the mother of all surgeries’.
Claire Gerring, 42, was referred to John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford with the suspected condition, where tissue similar to the lining of the womb grows elsewhere, after an ultrasound in November 2022 and was put on the waiting list in May 2023 for an investigative laparoscopy.
But after intense pain on her right side, a positive faecal immunochemical test – which looks for traces of blood in your stool – led to a colonoscopy.
Doctors discovered
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