Woman's alarming cancer symptoms blamed on pregnancy for years before stage 3 diagnosis

A Los Angeles mother said her jarring symptoms were dismissed by doctors for years, chalked up to a side effect of childbirth — but they turned out to be signals of colorectal cancer.

Marisa Peters, 44, a mother of three and former Broadway vocalist, first noticed bleeding when going to the bathroom after having her first son.

"Symptoms intensified to where blood was filling the toilet … then I had increased urgency to go to the bathroom," she shared with Fox News Digital. "The size...