A MUM who thought her back pain was from sitting at a desk all day was later diagnosed with incurable cancer. Izzie Collins spent months putting her constant aches down to poor posture and being stationary for too long. But in April 2024, the 30-year-old was delivered the life-changing news that she has stage four neuroendocrine tumours .
These develop in cells of the neuroendocrine system and affect around 6,000 people every year in the UK. Izzie, from Stockton, County Durham , told The Sun: "I'm taking each day as it comes. "Some days the pain is debilitating and I can't believe how much my life has changed in the blink of an eye.
" The mum-of-two first started to experience pain in her back late last year. She assumed it was from sitting at her desk at work, doing housework, or carrying her youngest daughter. Izzie, mum to Kaiya, 10, and one-year-old Violet, even swapped her mattress thinking that could be the cause.
But a blood test revealed her pain was actually a symptom of cancer . Further scans showed she has "numerous tumours" on her spine, which are "dangerously close to her spinal cord". "Unfortunately for our best friend, it has spread from her pancreas to the bone," pal Nieve Woodhouse, 24, said.
Izzie, who still lives in "excruciating pain", is hoping to urge others to get any symptoms they experience checked out early. She said: "Last year before Christmas, I thought I'd pulled my back one day. "It got better over the next few weeks, but it started to hurt again.
