 was later told she in fact had stage four cancer. Ellie Wilcock, 26, was told her insides looked like 'chewing gum stuck to a carpet', with a huge tumour in her lower abdomen. 5 Ellie Wilcock, 26 Credit: PA Real Life 5 Ellie was told her insides looked like 'chewing gum stuck to a carpet' when she thought she just had a UTI Credit: PA Real Life The content manager, from Peterborough, said: 'My mum and I went into a room with the doctor and he said I have cancer . 'I just went into shock – I kept asking him if he was joking. 'They said it was stage four and that it was in my bowel , and it had spread to my liver , peritoneum and ovaries . 'It was the last thing I expected, being so young.' Ellie and her boyfriend, Rory Canning, 27, had just moved in together and were living their dream when their ordeal began in the new year of 2022. Ellie, who was 25 at the time, had 'extreme pain' with what she thought was a UTI, but thought 'nothing of it' because she has UTIs a couple of times a year. After a week, nothing improved. But because there appeared to be no infection, but her inflammatory markers were 'extremely high', Ellie was referred for an ultrasound. Ellie said: 'When they did the ultrasound, they immediately saw something but they couldn't tell me any more other than there was a 15cm mass in my lower abdomen. 'I was put on to the women's health ward as they thought it may be an ovarian cyst.' The following morning, Ellie was sedated to have emergency surgery to remove the cyst, but nothing had been taken out when she woke up. She said: 'They did a biopsy instead and they suspected that I had pelvic inflammatory disease because when they opened me up my insides looked like chewing gum on a carpet – they could see a large tumour.' Around a week later, in February 2022, Ellie got the biopsy results. She was diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer which had spread to her liver, peritoneum and ovaries){kind=link}
A WOMAN who thought nothing of her urinary tract infection (UTI) was later told she in fact had stage four cancer.
Ellie Wilcock, 26, was told her insides looked like ‘chewing gum stuck to a carpet’, with a huge tumour in her lower abdomen.
The content manager, from Peterborough, said: “My mum and I went into a room with the doctor and he said I have cancer.
“I just went into shock – I kept asking him if he was joking.
“They said it was stage four and that it was in my bowel, and it had spread to my liver, peritoneum and ovaries.