Hello, my name is Luca, I'm an 18 year old student from Manchester and I'm currently battling with the news I've recently been told about my mother having bowl cancer. 

My 49 year old mum was misdiagnosed and told she "just had anxiety" for 8 months straight, even after being in and out of A&E every other week with excruciating stomach pain.

I can't describe how knowing that she's had it all this time makes me feel. I feel outraged. The fact that the doctors turned her away severel times and dismissed it as "simply just anxiety and nothing else" is infuriating beyond words. 

At this current moment we're not too sure what the plan is going forward but from what I know so far she's going to have an opperation to remove the tumour within her bowls. Hopefully if it hasn't spread then she will be okay.

I'm not the only person who is distraught over the recent news. I have a 31 year old sister and a 15 year old brother who are completely lost for words and are unsure on how to cope with it. 

My hope is to spread awareness of misdiagnoses that can occur when it comes to cancer. My mother isn't the first to have this happen to her either, many other people within the UK are wrongly misdiagnosed. It's not right and not fair that someone should have to loose their life just because doctors don't have time to properly diagnosed patients, so they label any condition with "Anxiety". Especially after the fairly recent passing of my grandad 7 months ago who also had bowl cancer.