>>36743090This.
She's in the UK as well. Doctors have a bad habit of brushing off "pains" as trapped gas, send you home with some painkillers and that's you.
Come back again in a month, "still sore bro", "ah here, have some more painkillers, it's noooothin'"
Repeat 3-5 times, you're already losing weight, but the average person doesn't weigh themselves so don't notice until it is significant and someone else tells them, go to doc, stage 4 cancer, dead.
Don't let your doctor turn you in to a statistic. Fucking argue with them if need be, but be polite about it.
If you have a serious sense of dread, fucking go, don't even hesitate.
I was across the ward from someone a month ago in hospital. Dude got a full body scan, cancer all over his body, nothing they could do. Don't be him.