- After claiming that doctors “dismissed” her cancer signs for months, a professional boxer passed away at the age of 25.
Georgia O’Connor, a native of Durham, UK, won gold at the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games after excelling as a young amateur boxer for Team GB.
Just in January of this year, the rising celebrity disclosed that she had been diagnosed with a deadly malignancy and ulcerative colitis, a chronic inflammatory bowel illness.
Revealing her diagnosis on Instagram, she wrote at the time, “There’s really no easy way to say this, but I have cancer.”
“Now that’s out the way, it’s time to expose the absolute incompetent RATS that have allowed this to happen.”
O’Connor claimed to have been in “constant pain” for 17 weeks and to have visited the hospital and doctor multiple times.
She claimed to be aware that “something was seriously wrong” and that her colitis and PSC (primary sclerosing cholangitis) already made her a cancer risk.
“But not one doctor f***ing listened to me,” she continued. “Not one doctor took me seriously. Not one doctor did the scans or blood tests I begged for whilst crying on the floor in agony.”
“Instead, they dismissed me. They gaslit me, told me it was nothing, made me feel like I was overreacting. They refused to scan me. They refused to investigate. They REFUSED to listen. One even told me that it’s ‘all in my head.’”
