A WOMAN whose sister died of ovarian cancer just eight days after she was diagnosed wants women to be more aware of the ‘silent killer’. Natalie Wild was so concerned about her sister Leanne, whose symptoms were dismissed as Covid for months. When she was eventually told she had the disease in November 2021, the cancer had spread so far around her body that she only survived for another week.
Now Natalie is trying to raise as much awareness as she can, to stop any other family going through such heartbreak. The 44-year-old, who lives in Sheffield , said: "I’m never going to give up now on telling other women about ovarian cancer. "It took my sister in eight days and I don’t want that devastation to happen to anyone else.
" It was a shock to the family when Leanne first fell ill in April 2020. The country had just been plunged into lockdown , so her symptoms were similar to some of the Covid signs. "We were worried when she first fell ill, as Covid was claiming lives," said Natalie.
"Because she was having breathing problems, it kept being put down to her having long Covid. But she couldn’t seem to get better. "In June, on her birthday, we FaceTimed her, as no-one could meet up because of the Covid restrictions.
"Her breathing was so laboured and rasping that it was like talking to a 90-year-old woman who had smoked all her life. "For the next 20 months she was told that she’d had Covid three times. It seemed never ending to her.
"But she’d lost so much weight, de.
