By Filipa Gaspar

A woman has been left unable to walk after her cancer symptoms were mistaken for menopause.

Karen Davey, 54, started experiencing fatigue, hot flashes, and loss of appetite - leading her to believe she was experiencing symptoms of menopause .

After being hospitalized for two weeks, she was diagnosed with stage four non-Hodgkin lymphoma in her kidneys - with a tumor wrapped around her spinal cord.

Due to the spinal cord injury it caused, Karen cannot walk and is now a full-time wheelchair user.

Karen from Launceston, Cornwall said: "I’d gone from somebody who was quite active before. I’d do a lot of hiking across the moors, I used to go cold water swimming all year round.

"One of the last things I did before I got ill was an abseil off a 120-foot viaduct.

“This i

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