NHS initiative<\/a>, called Jess’s Rule, where GPs in England are being urged to “think again” if they see a sick patient three times and can’t pin down a diagnosis, or find their symptoms are getting worse.<\/p>\nChelsea Davies, a cleaner from Ashton-under-Lyne, Manchester, said: “I can’t believe it took four years to get an answer. It’s completely turned my life upside down. I can’t help but think my cancer was preventable.<\/p>\n
“Now I’ve got no uterus, no eggs, and no hair. Like, Jessica, I feel like it’s too late for me and I know this rule would’ve helped me. I’m not ready to leave my two kids, Mia, 13, Jordan, 11, and partner, Noel, 41, behind.”<\/p>\n
Chelsea first visited hospital in September 2021 after experiencing “months” of “stomach-bug-like” symptoms. “I didn’t think it was anything too serious,” she said.<\/p>\n
“The doctors just felt my tummy and told me it’s most likely my period.” But Chelsea’s symptoms developed and worsened – and at one point, she was constipated for 14 days – and went to the doctors later that month after finding blood in her stool.<\/p>\n
“They performed a prostate examination and later a colonoscopy,” she added. “But they couldn’t find anything. I still kept hearing that it was my period, and at one point, the doctors suggested a diet change, thinking I had IBS. Nothing they said or gave me worked.<\/p>\n
“I was worried that it might have been cancer, but they didn’t bother to look because of my age. They said it was too rare,” she claimed.<\/p>\n
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Chelsea Davies was repeatedly dismissed by doctors(Image: SWNS)<\/p>\n
Over four years, Chelsea went back and forth over 10 times and doctors continued to pin her symptoms to her period or diet – and was even prescribed blood thinners after doctors found a small clot in her left lung – which was “nothing”.<\/p>\n
“I felt hopeless and convinced it was something more serious,” Chelsea said. “My body was failing me and I had it in my head that it was cancer.”<\/p>\n
Eventually, in May 2025, Chelsea was admitted to St Mary’s Hospital in Manchester and had an MRI scan of her pelvis – where she was later diagnosed with stage three ovarian cancer after specialists found lesions in her ovaries.<\/p>\n
She underwent an emergency hysterectomy that same month, to remove her uterus – as well as her appendix and part of her bowel – as doctors explained that she was “riddled” with cancer. Chelsea is now undergoing a six-month course of chemotherapy to help keep the cancer at bay.<\/p>\n
“I was devastated and furious,” she said. “They told me the cancer must have been in me for a while, but no one caught it. And now my body was covered in masses; they had to remove almost half my organs.”<\/p>\n
The mum-of-two was “devastated” to find out she wouldn’t be able to have more kids naturally. “I wanted a whole football team, but that’s not possible anymore,” she added.<\/p>\n
“For years, I thought I was crazy – and had to ask my friends if they thought I was overreacting to my symptoms. Although I’m grateful I finally know I have cancer, I can’t help but think it’s too late. Hopefully, Jess’s law can prevent people from ending up in the same situation as me. My future would probably look entirely different.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chelsea Davies, 31, started getting abdominal pain and constipation in May 2021, but doctors put it down to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[105,378,16,15,1292],"class_list":{"0":"post-454332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-in-the-news","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-women"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115274070998319389","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Chelsea Davies was told she was “too young for cancer” (Image: SWNS)<\/p>\n![\"Chelsea](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/0_Jess-rule-supporter-Doctors-dismissed-my-cancer-TEN-times-for-period-pain.jpg\")
Chelsea Davies was diagnosed with stage three ovarian cancer(Image: SWNS)<\/p>\n