Mom, 24, claims documents refused to test their tumor

A mother who claims that she was told that she is too young for pancreatic cancer has got a bleak, “incurable” diagnosis – and now she is trying to make memories with her child and husband before she dies.

Kanisha Collins, 24, sought care at Britain’s Chesterfield Royal Hospital in December, she said Daily mail In an article published on Thursday, June 5. Her medical team communicated with cancer specialists at Weston Park Hospital, and the consensus was that she had had pancreatitis – a pancreas It can cause nausea, vomiting and stomach pain.

People have reached Chesterfield Royal Hospital and Weston Park Hospital for comments. Told a representative of the hospital Daily Mail that internal reviews are “already in progress.”

Kanisha told the outlet that last February, May 30, a scan showed a mass on her pancreas And a blood clot, but her medical team still said she had pancreatitis. “They would not test the mass on my pancreas, because they did not think anyone my age would have pancreatic cancer,” Kanisha claimed and claimed she was told that the mass was “benign.”

But as she explains, the pain got worse – and she was rushed back to the hospital for more tests; On May 19, she got the heartbreaking news that she had cancer in steps four pancreas that had spread to her liver and was “incurable.”

Pancreatic cancer is one of the most devastating cancers Because it usually does not show symptoms until it is too far ahead for effective treatment. As Pancreatic cancer measures Explains, even when it is detected only in the pancreas, the five -year survival is 44%. For all types of pancreatic cancer, including if it has spread, five -year survival is 13%.

“I felt discriminated against because I was so young,” Kanisha told the outlet. She had been in the middle of the planning of her wedding and celebrated her daughter Amaya’s second birthday, but now she says “I feel heartbroken.”

“I have a 2-year-old daughter at home,” she said. “I am getting married on Saturday and I had all this to look forward to in the future.”

Her father, Dean, has started a Gofundme Supporting Amaya in the future and helping Kanisha and her husband Mason to build memories – all while paying for cancer treatment. “I’m at Kemo. I’m tired, so it’s hard, but I guess I have to look for the positive side, that Kemo will shrink enough to give me many years along the line,” she said.

“We all keep positive about it and hope the treatment will shrink my tumors enough to give me a few years.” But as Dean gloomy wrote in Gofundme, “Amaya will grow up without her mother by her side through her childhood, teen and adulthood. The pain in this loss is unthinkable for our family.”

As Dean told us Daily mail“My goal now is to gain additional awareness out there, when it comes to cancer, because there are lots of people out there who have experienced it … People just don’t seem to want to drive it anymore, to do further tests, just because she was young.”

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