‘I went to A&E with horrific abdominal pain, but then they found a 2kg tumour’

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Natasha Reynolds told her symptoms were likely down to endometriosis or irritable bowel syndrome – then doctors found a 20cm-wide cancerous tumour

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Doubled over with “horrific” abdominal pain, Natasha Reynolds was hoping for answers when she was forced to turn to A&E after multiple doctors had been unable to find the cause of her symptoms for almost 18 months.

‘I went to A&E with horrific abdominal pain, but then they found a 2kg tumour’

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