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Two months after being told she was too young to have cancer, Shalisha James-Davis was rushed to hospital in debilitating pain.
The actor, 30, who has appeared in Casualty and Mary Queen of Scots, woke from surgery to be told the football-sized tumour was indeed ovarian cancer after all.
It was mucinous ovarian cancer, a type that is rare, with its complexities making it "challenging to diagnose", a spokeswoman for the health trust involved said.
A nurse with the Ask Eve cancer charity said she had seen many cases of women being told they were too young to be investigated properly, and had struggled to get a diagnosis for one of the five gynaecological cancers.
