India, May 1 -- A 32-year-old woman, who suffered crippling exhaustion and itchy legs for a long time, was diagnosed with cancer after doctors initially dismissed her symptoms. Emma Simms struggled with maddeningly itchy legs and was unable to gain weight. Gradually, she also began suffering from night sweats and chest pain but her doctors did not seem to find anything wrong with her.

One doctor even did blood tests and told her she did not have cancer.

"I was turned away three times by my GP. Each time I was told it was nothing serious. They did blood tests and categorically told me I didn't have lymphoma. One GP actually said, 'You don't have leukaemia, you don't have lymphoma. Everything's come back great.' And that was it. I was sen...