A 33-year-old mother who assumed she was pregnant, dies of a rare deadly cancer.
The woman is identified as 33-year-old Fiona Gallacher, a mother of four. According to the sources, Fiona had pregnancy-like signs for about 2 months, including severe stomach pain, morning sickness, bloating, and vomiting. Her pregnancy tests revealed negative. She consulted the doctor after her condition worsened.
After tests, the doctors confirmed that Fiona had stage four adenocarcinoma. It is a form of cancer that grows in the glands of vital organs.
Initially, the doctors gave her six months or one year to live. However, she passed away 11 weeks later. Kellyann sister of Fiona said that Fiona began encountering severe stomach pains but she put it down to just feeling unwell. Fiona's stomach unexpectedly swelled out, and she could not keep anything down. Initially, she assumed that she was pregnant because of the way she was feeling and she was also so swollen it did look as though she might be pregnant.
Adenocarcinoma is a type of cancer that develops in the glands that line organs. The common forms of adenocarcinoma include breast, lung, stomach, pancreatic, prostate, and colorectal cancers. Adenocarcinoma can affect different areas of the body.
The factors that are responsible for the development of adenocarcinoma include smoking, toxin exposure, and previous radiation therapy. The symptoms of adenocarcinoma are stomach pain, bloating, nausea, heartburn or indigestion, difficulty in swallowing, pain, coughing, difficulty breathing, chest pain, loss of appetite, weight loss, poop that floats, abdominal pain, erectile dysfunction, blood in the urine.
The diagnosis tests of the adenocarcinoma include blood tests, CT scans, MRIs, and biopsies. The treatment of the disease includes surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy.
References:
1) https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/21652-adenocarcinoma-cancers
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