A Patient Story - Constance Synesios

Constance Synesios, 22, knew her fatigue wasn't normal.

Studying at university and raising a one-and-a-half-year-old, she couldn't even bathe her daughter without feeling completely and utterly exhausted. Whenever she would try and carry her daughter, she'd experience cramping in her shoulder and on the left side of her body.

'My cervical cancer was misdiagnosed for nine months' Constance was rushed to Prince of Wales Hospital, where she underwent extensive testing. While Constance had cancer in the family, her father passed away five years ago from renal cancer, she didn't make the connection, even when she began to feel incredibly unwell.

Constance has finished her chemotherapy and is back at home taking care of her almost two year old daughter.