Misdiagnosis of bowel cancer, and delayed chemotherapy was an anxious wait for Newcastle cancer patient Joanne Parkinson

By Anita Beaumont
Updated October 26 2019 - 9:34pm, first published 6:00am
Painful wait: Macquarie Hills mother Joanne Parkinson, 38, wants bowel cancer symptoms to be taken more seriously for people aged under 50 after several misdiagnoses last year. She waited almost two months from a stage four diagnosis to start "urgent" chemo. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers
Painful wait: Macquarie Hills mother Joanne Parkinson, 38, wants bowel cancer symptoms to be taken more seriously for people aged under 50 after several misdiagnoses last year. She waited almost two months from a stage four diagnosis to start "urgent" chemo. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers

JOANNE Parkinson says there is no way to know if her prognosis could have been different had a doctor taken her bowel cancer symptoms more seriously sooner.

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