Woman Endures Aggressive Chemotherapy For Terminal Cancer, Only To Discover She Never Had Cancer

Finding out you have cancer is a life-altering moment. It affects everything from your daily routines to your future plans. Now, picture what this woman experienced when she was told she had cancer and underwent intense chemotherapy, only to discover later that she never had cancer at all!

Impacted by aggressive cancer, told had 15 months to live

Lisa Monk, a 39-year-old mother of two from Texas, USA, visited a hospital in 2022 due to stomach pains she thought were kidney stones.

New York Post reported that tests showed two kidney stones and a mass on her spleen, which was successfully removed through surgery in January last year.

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The spleen was sent to three pathology labs for testing, and it came back positive for a rare and terminal form of cancer on the fourth attempt.

According to the Mirror, Monk was diagnosed with clear cell angiosarcoma, which is considered a type of cancer with a poor prognosis regardless of age and gender.

"It was a blood vessel type of cancer found in the spleen," Monk said.

She was given 15 months to live by the doctor.

Two chemotherapy sessions later, Lisa told she doesn¡¯t have cancer

After going through the tough task of sharing the news with her family and friends, Lisa then set out on her treatment journey, which involved "aggressive" chemotherapy sessions.

In the first round of treatment, she lost all her hair, and in the second round, she experienced vomiting and developed silvery skin.

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One day, while speaking to her nurse practitioner, Monk recalled that she was being asked about her symptoms when suddenly, the nurse practitioner stopped scrolling the computer and had a "completely horrified" look on her face.

Monk says, "All of a sudden she just stops talking and has this look on her face. She turned to me and looked completely horrified and told me she needed to get the doctor and then ran out of the room. She left me alone for about 15 minutes and the doctor came back in."

The doctor revealed to her that she actually didn¡¯t have cancer.

Monk explained, "In the end they determined that my spleen was going to rupture which is why it had the mass on it. It was just blood vessel activity and no cancer in it."

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