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Woman had symptoms attributed to allergy and early menopause before discovering rare blood cancer

British Virginie Liba, 49, lived for four years with symptoms that were wrongly attributed to allergies and early menopause, until discovering in November 2019 that she was suffering from chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), a rare and slow-growing type of blood cancer. Mother of three children, she began experiencing intense episodes of night sweats and persistent cough at age 39, in 2015, but was informed by doctors that she was going through menopause and suffering from seasonal allergies.

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