Young woman, 24, who blamed her headaches on a hangover actually had CANCER

When the hangover symptoms continued for longer than a week, Hope Stringer, 24, from Billericay, Essex, put her tiredness and blurred vision down to long days at the office. 

She demanded an MRI scan where doctors discovered a cancerous tumour in the base of her skull. After confirming she had soft tissue sarcoma, she had to take nine months off work so she could undergo six intense rounds of chemotherapy and radiotherapy (left) causing her hair to fall out (bottom inset). Another scan revealed a second tumour had grown and this time surgeons had to remove a nerve that affects her left vocal cord in a bid to completely eliminate it.