一位健康的父亲于2020年死于第四期肠道癌, 最初症状被误认为是运动受伤。 A healthy father died from undiagnosed stage four bowel cancer in 2020 after symptoms were initially mistaken for a sports injury.

2020年1月,来自布里斯托尔的41岁健康父亲Rich Baillie被诊断为第四期肠道癌, In January 2020, Rich Baillie, a 41-year-old healthy father from Bristol, was diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer after persistent shoulder and side pain, initially mistaken for a sports injury. 扫描显示癌症已蔓延到他的肝脏。 Despite lacking typical symptoms like blood in stool until later, scans revealed the cancer had spread to his liver. 他的妻子说,最终诊断是毁灭性的,没有治疗办法。 His wife described the terminal diagnosis as devastating, with no curative treatment available. 在接下来的11个月里,Rich在大流行病期间接受了化疗,而他的家人则遭受孤立和悲痛。 Over the next 11 months, Rich underwent chemotherapy during the pandemic, while his family coped with isolation and grief. 他于2020年11月去世, 着重提到肠癌如何在没有警告的情况下, 在健康的人身上发动攻击。 He died in November 2020, highlighting how bowel cancer can strike without warning in otherwise healthy individuals.