India, April 20 -- A 76-year-old UK woman who was said to rarely fall ill died three days after she was diagnosed with bowel cancer after doctors originally mistook her symptoms for a food intolerance, the Daily Mail said.

The healthy mother died within eight months of a bowel cancer diagnosis after she suddenly fell ill in 2023. Maria Paszkiewicz started experiencing a change in her bowel habits and complained that she needed to use the toilet more frequently than usual.

However, her doctor said her symptoms were caused by a reaction to food that she ate and was unable to digest properly. Her daughter said no doctor suggested that it could be something more serious and the family believed it was just digestion issues.

However, when he...