“I’ve just got to try to get on with life,” the woman, who said her body was “riddled” with cancer, told ‘The Telegraph’
- A woman had 13 internal organs removed following a 2019 cancer diagnosis
- Rebecca Hind of Cumbria, England, initially thought she had food poisoning after feeling unwell following an office Christmas party — but she began to suspect something more was going on when she didn’t fully recover after two months
- Hind, 39, was ultimately diagnosed with pseudomyxoma peritonei (or PMP), a rare mucinous cancer
A woman had 13 of her internal organs removed following a rare cancer diagnosis.
Rebecca Hind of Cumbria, England, first began feeling unwell after an office Christmas party in December 2018, according to The Telegraph. The now-former outdoor educator, 39, initially thought she had a bout of food poisoning, but when she hadn’t fully recovered after eight weeks, she knew something more was going on.
After several visits to her doctor, a CT scan and biopsies, Hind was diagnosed with a rare mucinous cancer called pseudomyxoma peritonei (or PMP), which affects about one in a million people. According to the Cleveland Clinic, PMP “spreads by secreting mucin, a component of mucus, inside your abdominal cavity.” Symptoms, which often develop slowly, can include abdominal distension and pain, nausea, loss of appetite and constipation.
The cancer cells spread beyond the abdominal cavity to other organs — which is what had happened in Hind’s case.
“By the time they found it, I was pretty much riddled with it,” she told The Telegraph, adding, “It was heartbreaking. But I’ve just got to try to get on with life, and deal with whatever comes my way.”
