“My clothes started becoming tighter around my middle. I wasn’t eating any differently, but my stomach was growing. ‘I must be going through the menopause,’ I told myself. The doctor warned me that it could be PMP, or pseudomyxoma peritonei – a rare cancer that starts growing on the appendix”
Jan shared her story with the Metro.
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