Daily Mirror

‘Keyboard medics’ cancer scares

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MILLIONS could be misdiagnos­ing themselves with cancer online.

Some 57% of us use the internet to check symptoms and data reveals cancer-related topics are searched once every 1.7 seconds. But Bupa said half of the results for constipati­on advised it could be cancer – as did one in three for a sore throat.

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