2024-03-19 19:20:06
A unique case. Alison Varley thought she was suffering from a lung infection. But the diagnosis was completely different. At 42, this mother was having difficulty breathing. She then received antibiotic treatment. But the medications failed to relieve her and her husband contacted the emergency room.
Admitted to the hospital, she underwent medical examinations. A CT scan identifies the presence of goblet cell carcinoma: “Doctors performed a CT scan and found five liters of fluid in my right lung. They tried to drain it and found a large mass on my ovary“.
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As explained by Mirror, the medical team found that the cancer had started in the patient’s appendix before spreading to her intestines, ovaries and rectum. “It’s rare on rare on rare. No one has my cancer. Its genetic makeup is unlike any other in the world. There are people with goblet cells, but no genetic makeup. That’s why they have a hard time with me because there hasn’t been anyone with this disease before me“. Indeed, the forty-year-old is the only one in the world to suffer from this cancer.
Chemotherapy
This mother of three underwent immunotherapy but this treatment caused the cancer to grow: “The doctors immediately stopped the treatment. If cancer develops during treatment, it can make it worse. They put me under surveillance and I’m waiting“Without treatment for nine months, the cancer only grew.”slightly“.
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Recently, a colonoscopy confirmed that the tumor was spreading: “An oncologist came to see me and he told me the cancer had grown and he thought it was in the intestine. They arranged to put a stent in my intestine to open it“.
Today, the mother is starting chemotherapy. “It’s hard not to talk about dark things when you’re in my shoes… I don’t know if this will be my last Christmas or my last birthday with them. I don’t know what’s going to happen.”
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