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Cancer diagnosis missed through pregnancy

Doctors are missing key signs of cancer amongst pregnant women, a cancer charity has claimed.

Cancer during pregnancy is rare – it is thought that around one in 1000 women in the UK are affected. But the Mummy's Star charity says that medical professionals often dismiss cancer symptoms as being related to pregnancy.

Throughout her fourth pregnancy last year, Jenny Moss felt something was wrong. As the birth got closer, she reported symptoms such as sickness and weight lost to medical staff on a number of occasions but it was only after her baby was born that they discovered she had bowel cancer.

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