Sophie Zenonos, a gym fanatic from Basildon, Essex, claims doctors "fobbed her off" with antibiotics when she first experienced shortness of breath, a persistent cough and fatigue

A young woman who had a continuous cough and became so ill she couldn't get upstairs without gasping for air was eventually diagnosed with cancer .

When Sophie Zenonos, 28, also experienced shortness of breath and fatigue, she visited her GP only to allegedly be "fobbed off" with antibiotics on three occasions. On each occasion, doctors told Sophie she had a chest infection but, five months later, one coughing fit was so bad Sophie turned blue.

The gym fanatic was sent for an X-ray which revealed there was a six-inch by four-inch tumour in her chest and that Sophie had stage four Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma . N

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