From UK DAILY MAIL
Doctors said my daughter had IBS - in fact, it was bowel cancer': Heartbroken mother on losing her 28-year-old to the disease that's killing more young people than ever
- Holly Slater, then 26, developed stomach cramps and constipation in 2011
- Less than two years later she died from aggressive bowel cancer
- Cases of the disease in young people have risen by 120% in ten years
- Holly's mother says outdated views to the disease cost her daughter's life
- She is urging people young and old not to ignore persistent IBS symptoms
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A seemingly fit and healthy 28-year-old died from bowel cancer after doctors repeatedly told her she was suffering from a harmless digestive complaint.
Nursery worker Holly Slater visited her doctor several times over an 18 month period, yet doctors did did not recognise her symptoms - which included bloating and abdominal cramps - and mistook the beginnings of bowel cancer for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
The cancer eventually spread to her lungs, bones and liver and she died in February this year.
To this day, there is no clear reason why she succumbed to the disease - Holly was fit and healthy and there was no family history of the disease.
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