{"id":80817,"date":"2025-10-27T08:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T08:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=80817"},"modified":"2025-10-27T08:32:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T08:32:14","slug":"teen-was-diagnosed-with-stage-3-bowel-cancer-after-being-dismissed-thirteen-times-by-doctors-who-told-her-she-was-too-young-to-get-the-disease-these-were-her-symptoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/10\/27\/teen-was-diagnosed-with-stage-3-bowel-cancer-after-being-dismissed-thirteen-times-by-doctors-who-told-her-she-was-too-young-to-get-the-disease-these-were-her-symptoms\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen was diagnosed with stage 3 bowel cancer after being dismissed THIRTEEN times by doctors who told her she was &#8216;too young&#8217; to get the disease &#8211; these were her symptoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/10\/27\/04\/103335519-15229761-Milli_Tanner_pictured_first_went_to_her_GP_in_June_2021_when_she-a-1_1761539417812.jpg\" alt=\"Milli Tanner (pictured) first went to her GP in June 2021, when she was 19 years old, with stomach pains, lower back pain and blood in her stool\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A woman who has been diagnosed with Stage 3 bowel\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-e404e6b0-b2d5-11f0-acc1-a3d8ee052a5e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/cancer\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">cancer<\/a><\/span> has revealed how her symptoms were dismissed 13\u00a0 times by doctors who told her she was &#8216;too young&#8217; to get the disease.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-15229761\/girl-stage-3-bowel-cancer-dismissed-13-times-doctors-told-young-disease.html\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A woman who has been diagnosed with Stage 3 bowel\u00a0cancer has revealed how her symptoms were dismissed 13\u00a0 times by doctors who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-80817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/stoma-bag.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80818,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80817\/revisions\/80818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}