A doctor who discovered her own stage 4 colon cancer at age 37 has shared the two mild symptoms she experienced, as she hopes to make others aware of the warning signs

You need to be aware of these two colon cancer warning signs.

A gynaecologist who discovered her own stage 4 colon cancer has said she was only experiencing two mild symptoms when she made her diagnosis and never would have caught her cancerif she hadn't known what to look out for. Dr Lauren Juyia is now trying to spread awareness about the lesser-known symptoms of colon cancer, as she hopes to help other people get more informed.

The doctor said she began feeling fatigued in August 2022 but had initially put it down to just being a part of life, until it was paired with a sense of "pelvic heaviness" which left her with a gut feeling that something was wrong. When the sense of heaviness turned into her feeling a "pelvic mass", she booked herself in for an ultrasound, where it was discovered she had larger-than-normal masses by her ovary.

Dr Lauren Juyia received chemotherapy for her cancer through a port (

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Dr Juyia told Good Morning America: "Having a background in obstetrics, we describe size by weeks of pregnancy and so I was like, 'Oh my god, I have a 16-week-size mass.' From experience, I could tell that this was my ovary."