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My menopause Was Cancer

Jan thought her growing tummy was down to menopause, but the reality was terrifying

Jan McCluskey, 62

Your tummy looks a funny shape,’ my husband Phil said when I was standing in the lounge room one day.

Going to look in the mirror, I realised he was right. Weirdly, my belly was heavier at the bottom and was a sort of pear shape.

Since my early 40s, despite trying every diet going to lose weight on my belly, it had just kept growing. Still, my arms and legs were

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