Woman who put her exhaustion down to her busy lifestyle discovers she has bowel cancer at 32 – which doctors missed for a whole year because they thought she was 'too young' to get it
- Cara Hoofe, from west London, was sent away by GP with iron pills for anaemia
- This was despite family history of bowel cancer – father was diagnosed in his 40s
- Cara discovered she had advanced cancer and needed part of bowel removed
- It had also spread to her liver, and part of that had to be cut away too
- She has Lynch syndrome, an inherited condition raising risks of certain cancers
- Speaking out to raise awareness that bowel cancer can affect younger people
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