Even now, two years after she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer at the age of 23, Emily Plane cannot remember any early symptoms that marked her out from her friends
Even now, two years after she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer at the age of 23, Emily Plane cannot remember any early symptoms that marked her out from her friends.
'I had tummy aches but I just thought I was allergic to something,' she says. The pain below her belly button came and went. And she either had diarrhoea or felt bloated and constipated.
'I had two friends who were gluten intolerant who had the same symptoms,' she says. 'I have yet to come across a group of 19-year-old girls where one or more of them hasn't self-diagnosed with some kind of food allergy or intolerance.'