21-Year-Old Woman Diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer After Years of Doctors Dismissing Her Pain

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"I know there’s something else wrong with my body," Jessie Sanders, 21, told doctors after her abdominal pain was continuously dismissed as period cramps

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