@thetimes: 🗣️ “I have always been tough, taught to push through the pain. You have to be if you’ve grown up as a child athlete, as I did, as a competitive swimmer in South Africa. I didn’t realise that was just the beginning of my relationship with pain. From an early age, I had been trained to ignore my body, always triaging the symptoms and pain levels of stress and anxiety. But as a woman of 37 years old, when I started to be in pain beyond any levels I had known before, it seemed I could no longer be trusted to have an opinion about my own body.” For years, Haelwyn Adams tried to get her stomach pain taken seriously, but cancer was only diagnosed when she was pregnant. She wants women to stand up to the medical profession 🔗 Tap the link to read her story *FOR NEWS PURPOSES* #health #womenshealth #cancer #uknews #medicine
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Monday 17 August 2026 17:35:00 GMT
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Amina Khan :
Why are women never believed?
2026-08-17 23:55:24
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🇬🇧🇪🇺 zakk0_o :
women are so underlooked in medicine and other parts of society, its so heartbreaking
2026-08-17 17:45:50
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greatopinionshere :
Many people are surviving stage four my dear don't give up hope it's harder and young people for sure! They gave me five years and I'm at 36 I had a full body Stem Cell transplant Stamford-I got cancer again at 51 a different cancer and now I'm 66 and I'm still here
2026-08-18 01:35:33
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Angela 🏴 :
This happened to my neighbour- she had been going to Drs about backpain/pain when peeing/swollen tummy. It got dismissed as women’s problems. She begged for scan and they discovered it was skin cancer stage 4. That was May 24, she died June 25 age 47 with 3 young children under 15.
2026-08-17 18:50:17
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Thoughts_from_Gem :
Why isn't this negligence?
2026-08-18 17:54:57
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Jay 🇬🇧 :
This is heartbreaking
2026-08-17 17:40:01
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prehisto :
yup, doctors have the biggest ego. they be brush everything that doesn't fit theit narrow view
2026-08-17 17:39:06
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God Wants You to Reign :
Dear… call on Jesus
2026-08-17 20:26:46
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eyoralltheway :
This breaks my heart .Doctors can be so dismissive, they need to listen . I’m so so sorry you were not heard 😢❤️
2026-08-18 20:07:40
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Líza in Paris :
I’m so so sorry this happened to you and that you weren’t listened to
2026-08-17 18:49:43
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philosopherpirate86 :
Doctors mainly male in a male institution need to stop and do better
2026-08-17 18:26:13
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Mari 🍁 :
Please God give her lots of years and time with her baby I have faith lord Amen 🙏🏽
2026-08-17 22:44:27
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SanneCarolienOnTikTok :
Are the doctors who dismissed her still practicing? Are there any repercussions for them? And are other women still being dismissed by them?
2026-08-17 19:24:06
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cheryl Jepson :
I am so sorry, women are always gaslighted
2026-08-18 21:58:04
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❤️🔥D....👠 :
please ladies i’d ignored in usa seek a scan in another country. Mexico with $300 you get a ct scan at a high quality hospital
2026-08-18 15:58:42
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Sarah Carlton291 :
Jesus please help her
2026-08-17 21:11:11
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B :
The doctors never listen
2026-08-18 02:22:36
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rickly :
Maybe the Times could use their newspaper to help this woman rather than hounding someone into su1c1de
2026-08-18 12:08:37
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Hina Imtiaz :
may God make it easier for you ❣️🙏
2026-08-18 14:20:56
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deniseant8 :
My darling I’m so sorry 💔
2026-08-18 16:36:48
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Karlito_van_dango :
Same happened to my mum.
2026-08-17 17:52:41
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Over$haring is Caring :
And the sad thing is that doctors are boomers refusing to leave, money for research is manipulated, becoming a doctor is unaffordable for most. Imagine the difference we could make if we changed healthcare and get money out of politics
2026-08-18 02:38:35
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Sashu :
My god the doctors have failed us !!
2026-08-17 18:21:55
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ggrrray :
laughed out of the surgery when i asked for a breast scan for a new lump (over 50 apparently it’s not done?!) and that was by a female gp. very tough getting through breast cancer after that
2026-08-17 19:12:12
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AJD :
This is heartbreaking. bless this woman. listen to this woman, trust yourself , advocate for yourself if you feel something is wrong .
2026-08-18 00:11:19
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