{"id":697438,"date":"2026-01-15T10:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T10:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/697438\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T10:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T10:33:10","slug":"bowel-cancer-patients-bid-to-end-diagnoses-in-ae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/697438\/","title":{"rendered":"Bowel cancer patient’s bid to end diagnoses in A&E"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sana, who is originally from Hertfordshire, but now lives in Great Glen, Leicestershire, was told she had bowel cancer aged 29 in April 2023, after she visited Watford General Hospital’s A&E department. <\/p>\n

However, she was alone at the time as her mother was about to board a plane to India, her father had just left the hospital, her sister had recently given birth and her husband was at home with their two young children. <\/p>\n

Sana said: “I was so nervous about what lay ahead and I had two young children, one who I was still breastfeeding at the time.<\/p>\n

“The day I was diagnosed in A&E, I was also admitted overnight, and this is the first time I had spent time away from them.<\/p>\n

“I was alone when I was told and I wish I was able to have someone with me.”<\/p>\n

Sana had spoken to her GP before her diagnosis as she had suffered with fatigue and low energy for several months. <\/p>\n

However, she had no other bowel cancer symptoms, external<\/a>. <\/p>\n

She said: “I was getting tired of waiting for test results and I was worried about a growing lump, so I phoned 111.<\/p>\n

“They sent me to urgent care, where the nurse immediately advised me to go to A&E.<\/p>\n

“I was scanned and that’s where my cancer was finally found.” <\/p>\n

Sana then started a three-month course of chemotherapy from May 2023, while she waited to find out if she could have an operation to get the tumour removed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sana, who is originally from Hertfordshire, but now lives in Great Glen, Leicestershire, was told she had bowel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[105,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-697438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115898666518406361","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697438","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=697438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}