Young people get it too, warns Cork woman diagnosed with bowel cancer

Emma Crowley says people should get any troubling symptoms checked out warning they will not go away of their own accord

Emma Crowley (with fellow cancer survivor Michael Healy) is using National Cancer Survivors' Day today to ask members of the public to get themselves checked out if they notice any troubling symptoms. Picture:  Gerard McCarthy 

A woman who developed bowel cancer in her 30s, and was diagnosed shortly after the death of her mother from pancreatic cancer, is urging the public not to view certain forms of cancer as “something that only happens to the elderly”. 

Emma Crowley from Model Farm Road in Cork is using National Cancer Survivors' Day today to ask members of the public to get themselves checked out if they notice any troubling symptoms.