When we experience pain, dizziness or any other alarming symptom, our first instinct is often the same: the Internet. A quick tour of a search engine and a whole panoply of verdicts, more or less exact and frightening, appear.
For Sadie Rance, a 23-year-old Englishwoman, Google has been stronger than her doctor.
The doctor made a wrong diagnosis
The latter diagnosed him with a irritable bowel syndrome when Sadie went to her office with stomach pains.
Left with an order of laxatives, the young woman sees her symptoms worsen. Over the next 4 months, she returned to her GP five times. She ends up going to Google and finds that she suffers from eight of the nine symptoms of ovarian cancer.
A tumor the size of a melon
When she returned to the hospital with these supporting details, specialists gave her various examinations and discovered a tumor the size of a melon in the ovaries. Because cancer has spread …
This type of cancer most often appears after menopause (the average age of diagnosis is 65); so doctors never imagined that a young woman could have stage 4 ovarian cancer.
While chemotherapy has only a 5% chance of success initially, it is effective and the tumor has shrunk. With a now uncertain future, Sadie is fighting for other young people diagnosed late and has already raised more than 46,000 euros for associations against cancer.
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