A previously ‘fit-and-healthy’, mother shared her fear after what doctors were repeatedly rejected when heartburn turned out to be incurable stomach cancer.
Georgia Gardiner, 28, from Leeds in West Yorkshire, has now been told that she might only have a year to live.
She was eventually diagnosed with Linitis Plastica – a rare and aggressive form of stomach cancer – on 13 June.
The disease has already spread to the tissues around the internal organs close to the stomach, as well as the lymph nodes in its lungs, which means that it is in the advanced – and the last – internships.
She said they are angry doctors, did not take her first symptoms, including stomach pain, seriously.
The mother of one says that if they had done that, her cancer was previously seen in a potentially more treatment.
The heartbreaking test of Mrs. Gardiner started when she suddenly started getting stomach pain so seriously that she “couldn’t keep food.”
As her condition deteriorated, the former ‘Massive Foodie’ completely lost its appetite.
Georgia Gardiner, 28, from Leeds in West Yorkshire, has now been told that she might have as little as a year to live
The mother of one was diagnosed with terminal cancer after her symptoms had been rejected for heartburn
“My body just rejected everything. Then I experienced pain in my upper abdomen. It was really intense, it was a sharp constant pain, “she remembered.
Although she went back and forth to the six and nine times of her doctors, she was always told that it was related to heartburn and received fundamental anti-acid reflux medication.
It was only months later when she was finally referred for an endoscopy, where a camera is brought down the throat to investigate the problem.
This showed disturbing signs that she can have stomach cancer.
Further tests confirmed that she had a disease and that it had already spread to the other organs.
This meant that the disease was already in stage, the last and most serious stage.
Dokers then told her that she might only have a year to live – of which she said she left her in ‘complete shock’.
“I said,” I’m going to die? I can’t die, I have a two -year -old son. ” My fiancé callum just turned green, “she said.
“When they said it was incurable, I went into a complete shock. I didn’t spoke to the house for three days – my whole world just crumbled, “she said.
Mrs. Gardiner said she is now concentrating on trying to spend as much time as possible with her son Arlo while she can
As shown above, having no energy, unintentionally losing weight, constant indigestion, swallowing problems, sick and a lump at the top of your stomach
The sharp horse rider who had previously been ‘fit-and-healthy’ that she had no idea why she had developed gastric cancer and had no family history of the disease.
She is now insisting on others to always push their doctor for action when they worry about worrying symptoms.
“If someone else had this kind of cancer and they can catch it at an earlier stage by having doctors do the right tests, then I know at least I have helped someone,” she said.
Mrs. Gardiner said that she is now concentrating on trying to spend as much time as possible with her son Arlo as long as she can.
‘The thing that breaks me is how much I will miss the life of Arlo. He is everything for me, “she said.
While she and Callum were planning to get married in a few years, the couple almost almost forward this.
A Fundraiser has been launched to help pay for future treatment and to make memories with her family.
About 6,500 patients in Great Britain and 30,000 in the US are diagnosed with stomach cancer every year.
The disease kills around 4,000 British and 11,000 Americans a year.
Although stomach cancer can develop at any age, it is much more common in older adults.
Only half (49 percent) of all cases of the diagnosed disease is one of the more than 75 seconds.
If caught in the earliest stages, the majority of stomach cancer patients (65 percent) will survive a decade after their diagnosis according to Charity Cancer Research UK.
Before stage four patients, the survival of 10 years, however, drops to just one in five.
The deadly disease can be prevented in more than half of the cases with possible cause, including smoking and obesity.
Symptoms of stomach cancer are heartburn or acid reflex, problems with swallowing, nausea, vomiting, farmers and feeling very quickly after eating.
Others include loss of appetite, unintended weight loss, a lump on your stomach, a pain on the top of your abdomen and fatigue.
It is amid an explosion of cancers among young people who have stunned experts.
In 2023, an American study showed that cancers of all species are increasing for younger women – but not remarkably men.
While for women in general they increased by more than four percent, there was a dip of almost five percent for young men.
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