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A woman's colon cancer symptom was dismissed as pregnancy-related. Years later, at 32, the military spouse was diagnosed with stage 3.
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A military spouse describes how her colon cancer symptoms were initially misdiagnosed as pregnancy-related by doctors, leading to a delayed diagnosis of stage 3c cancer at age 32. She has since recovered and is now five years cancer-free.
A woman's colon cancer symptom was dismissed as pregnancy-related. Years later, at 32, the military spouse was diagnosed with stage 3.
Monica Trott started having colon cancer symptoms around age 30, but doctors reassured her it was a pregnancy symptom. She wasn't diagnosed until years later, with stage 3 colon cancer.
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A military spouse had a common symptom of colon cancer for years, but doctors dismissed it as pregnancy-related.
She eventually had a colonoscopy that found a golf-ball-sized tumor, and was diagnosed with stage 3c colon cancer at 32.
Now five years cancer-free after treatment, she said a
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