When Ebony Gaylor was diagnosed with bowel cancer at 38 years old, she couldn't believe it was happening to her.
The fit, young executive-level Melburnian thought issues in her gut were most likely too much gluten or irritable bowel, so she put off getting tested.
"I'd try all the usual things like increasing exercise or less coffee, or getting rid of bread or whatever - it just wasn't working," she told AAP.
"I had not planned on getting cancer. It's not even that it was an old person's disease - I didn't think it was a 'me' disease."
When the "you've got cancer" blow finally landed, the young mum couldn't just put the rest of her life on hold to undergo treatment.
