Boxer Georgia O’Connor, 25, said doctors ‘gaslit’ her on cancer concerns for months before tragic death

British professional boxer Georgia O’Connor died of cancer aged 25. She was a decorated Team GB, winning the Commonwealth Youth gold in 2017.

O’Connor was a five times National and Commonwealth Champion, as well as a two-time World and European Medalist.

She went pro in 2021, going 3-0.

Her last fight as a professional took place in October 2022, outpointing Joyce Van Ee on an all-female card at London’s O2 Arena.

Boxer Georgia O’Connor shared her cancer diagnosis on January 31 and died just four months later, on May 22.

Days before her passing, she married her boyfriend, Adriano, whom she called her hero.

Boxer Georgia O’Connor married her husband days before dying of cancer.
Boxer Georgia O’Connor married her husband days before dying of cancer.
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Posting a photo of her ring, O’Connor wrote, “The day I married the love of my life.”

In a social media post, O’Connor blasted the UK’s publicly funded healthcare system.

“For 17 weeks since the start of October, I’ve been in constant pain, going back and forth between Durham and Newcastle RVI A&E knowing deep down something was seriously wrong,” O’Connor wrote. “I said from the start I felt it was cancer. I KNEW the risks. I have colitis and PSC, two diseases that dramatically increase the chances of getting it. I KNOW how high my risk is and they do too. They always did.”

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In the same post, she accused doctors of not taking her condition seriously and failing to diagnose her because they refused to run tests.

“Not one doctor did the scans or blood tests I begged for whilst crying on the floor in agony. Instead, they dismissed me. They gaslit me, told me it was nothing, made me feel like I was overreacting,” she wrote. “They refused to scan me. They refused to investigate. They REFUSED to listen.”

The young boxer shared that not only her cancer spread, but doctors also found potentially fatal blood clots in her lungs.

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“And now? Now the cancer has spread. And if that wasn’t enough, throughout this whole time there’s been BLOOD CLOTS all over my lungs. That ALONE could have killed me instantly.”

She condemned the National Health Service of being a “broken system.”

“They could have done something before it got to this stage. But they didn’t. Because this is the state of the NHS – a broken system that fails young people like me over and over again.

“A system that makes people suffer, that sends them home in agony, that lets cancer spread whilst the thick, stupid, mindless ‘doctors’ shrug their shoulders.”

On their website, NHS states that ulcerative colitis — a chronic inflammatory bowel disease O’Connor suffered from — can significantly increase the risks of developing cancer.

O’Connor passing has been announced by her promotion company BOXXER.

“We are heartbroken by the passing of Georgia O’Connor,” BOXXER said in a statement on X. “A true warrior inside and outside the ring, the boxing community has lost a talented, courageous and determined young woman far too soon.”

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