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Winnipegger urges patients to advocate for themselves after mother’s delayed cancer diagnosis - Winnipeg | Globalnews.ca

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Zoe Leslie-Bernard , 65 , was diagnosed with Stage 4 colon cancer in December .

She was originally told she had about three to five years to live, but further tests showed the cancer was extremely aggressive, growing multiple centimeters a month , and had spread to her liver.

Zoe's family says neither her GP nor doctors at walk-in clinics ordered her a colonoscopy or bloodwork.

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