Women are taking to social media to share how their rare cancers were dismissed as exaggerations or misdiagnosed as anxiety, letting the disease progress without treatment until it was too late for a cure. A 14-year-old who lost more than 50 pounds in just a few months and would pass out from coughing said doctors blamed her symptoms on eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia. Another young woman with a rare bone claims she had tests results kept from her for months, with the oncologist telling her to 'just Google' her diagnosis.
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