Marly Garnreiter, 27, from Paris, France, was waking up with night sweats and itchy skin, but initially put it down to anxiety, until she asked ChatGPT which gave a terrifying diagnosis
A woman who chalked up her symptoms to anxiety was left gobsmacked when ChatGPT served up the chilling diagnosis of blood cancer.
Marly Garnreiter, 27, grappled with night sweats and itchy skin following the heart-wrenching loss of her dad Victor, 58, to colon cancer. As she began dropping pounds, Marly fed her symptoms into ChatGPT, which disturbingly suggested that she likely had blood cancer. Despite scepticism, she shrugged it off.
It wasn’t until constant fatigue and chest pressure nagged at her, pushing her to consult her GP. The doctor sent her for futher tests and one of the scans exposed a mass lurking in her left lung.
Whisked away to a pulmonologist, a biopsy confirmed the dire truth, Marly was battling Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Bracing for bouts of chemotherapy, scheduled for four to six rounds, Marly is tackling the treatment “step by step”.
Strategist Marly, from Paris, France, reflected: “I started to lose a lot of weight when he’d just passed away. I kept eating normal amounts of food but I thought it must be the anxiety making me lost a lot of weight. I’d accepted you lose weight with grief.
“I was having night sweats and itchy skin. Again I thought it was anxiety.”
The tragic twist unfolded after her father’s death in January 2024, just two years post his own cancer diagnosis in 2022.
Despite initially receiving the all-clear from blood tests, Marly’s doctor had concurred with her – it was grief manifesting physically.
But over time, Marly began to sense there might be a bigger issue at play. She revealed: “I felt I was processing the grief well. I thought it must be something. In May I sent a took a video to my friends – I had asked ChatGPT and it said I had blood cancer.
“I ignored it. We were all sceptical and told to only consult real doctors.”
Yet by January 2025, her intuition led her back to the doctor’s office. Describing her condition she shared: “Around Christmas time I started to feel something was wrong. I had a constant pain in my chest. I was tired all the time.”
Her GP detected a “big mass” on her left lung and prompted a visit to a pulmonologist. A subsequent biopsy confirmed Marly’s cancer diagnosis on the 10th of February, 2025.
She admitted: “I felt a lot of anger. I felt like everything was unfair. I didn’t want my family to go through this one more time.”
Offered an opportunity for egg retrieval to preserve her fertility pre-treatment, Marly began chemotherapy on the 1st of March, slated for four to six cycles.
Highlighting an important health message, she added: “It’s really important to listen to our bodies. Sometimes we tend to lose our connection with our inner self. It’s important to be in tune.”
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