Mum told she had gallstones faces reality of terminal stage 4 cancer

A DERBYSHIRE bride-to-be was diagnosed with incurable stage four cancer after the mass on her pancreas was dismissed as gallstones for five months.

- By RUBY CLINE

Kanisha Collins, 24, started experiencing liver pain and recurring water infections last winter.

She was treated for pancreatitis at Chesterfield Royal Hospital, during which doctors found a large mass on her pancreas and blood clots.

A CT scan in February showed a slight shrinking in the mass, and doctors told her the mass was likely gallstones. Given her young age, no further tests were carried out.

Kanisha was scheduled for an MRI scan later in the year but went to A&E in April due to pain, where her liver lesions were discovered.

A biopsy revealed that she had stage four pancreatic cancer that had already spread to the liver.

The 24-year-old started chemotherapy this week to hopefully slow down the cancer.

Kanisha and her partner Mason Furnace, 29, are to get married on Saturday, with Kanisha’s two-year-old daughter Amaya as the bride's flower girl.

The bride, a care assistant from Chesterfield, said: “We've been engaged for two years, but when they found the mass my fiancé wanted to get married this year to speed things up.

“It’s stressful, I’m having chemo so obviously I’m going to be tired on my wedding day - not how I wanted to feel on my wedding day.