'Doctors told me I was too fat for cancer then had the worst news on my wedding day'
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A woman has shared her ordeal of getting her tragic cancer diagnosis after complaining of worrying symptoms for years. Claire Boulton, 47, who suffers from Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), says she raised concerns with doctors about stomach pains, nausea and blood in her stool for five years prior to her shock diagnosis in April 2019 - on the morning of her wedding day.
The former carer has now been living with cancer on and off for the past five years and will be undergoing major surgery this week (January 16), which will hopefully lower the risk of further spreading. However, mum-of-two Claire claims she was initially never taken "seriously" despite her regular appointments for her IBS.
She was even left feeling like a "burden" after doctors informed her she'd be losing weight if she had cancer. One medic even reportedly told Claire, who was struggling with weight gain, that she was "too fat" to have the awful disease. Claire, who feels that she was "fobbed off" by dismissive medics, was determined to get to the bottom of her issues, however, and ended up undergoing a colonoscopy. Then, just as she was busily preparing to walk down the aisle to her husband, Matthew Boulton, Claire received a call from doctors, letting her know that cancer had been detected in a polyp removed from her rectum.
Claire, of Thornbury, South Gloucestershire, recalled: "I was shocked. You can't write my life. On my wedding day I literally was sitting in the hairdressers that morning. I got a phone call from the doctors to tell me that they had found cancer in my polyp.
