He Defeated Colon Cancer Three Times: the First Symptoms Appeared at the Age of 14, but He Hid It From His Family for Years
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i In summary Danielle Ripley-Burgess overcame three diagnoses of colon cancer after ignoring the presence of blood in her stool at age 14. Her story makes the increase of this disease visible in young people and the importance of detecting genetic alterations such as Lynch syndrome in time.
A woman who battled cancer for 20 years and has been diagnosed with bowel cancer three times has spoken out about her situation to draw attention to a dangerous early symptom that she mistakenly blamed on her diet as a teenager.
Danielle Ripley-Burgess was just 14 years old when she first noticed blood in her stool. The Missouri woman was so ashamed of the symptom that she didn’t dare talk to anyone about it and spent years trying to find an explanation for what had happened. Shortly after her 17th birthday, she was diagnosed with stage three colon cancer. Since then, she has had to deal with the disease twice more, and now […]
Danielle Ripley-Burgess, a woman from the American state Missouri, shares her dramatic life story to signal an alarm about the prevention and early diagnosis of colorectal cancer. Diagnosed three times with this disease, she talks openly about the symptom she has hidden for years because of the specific discomfort of adolescence, reports Mediafax. [...]
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