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Article: Dying of embarrassment; A national bowel cancer screening programme is due to be launched next year which could save the lives of thousands of men and women over 50. The third most common form of cancer, it claims 16,000 lives every year often because its victims are too embarrassed to discuss the symptoms with their doctor. JILL PALMER talks to one woman who beat it.(M Health)
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- The Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 10, 2003
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Byline: JILL PALMER
RACHEL Hill was 28 and newly married when the symptoms started.
Bleeding from her bottom, abdominal pain after eating, and going to the toilet up to a dozen times a day.
But for the vivacious advertising executive they were all too familiar. Three years earlier she had been struck down with amoebic dysentery while backpacking with husband-to-be Dave in India.
The symptoms were identical and she mistakenly thought the parasitic infection had returned.
When she became pregnant and they disappeared Rachel put the ...