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Prodding my breasts as I stood under the shower, I checked for any changes, bumps and lumps.

I’d had harmless cysts before so I checked often, just to be sure.

And this time I thought I felt something in my left boob.

Out of the shower, I lay on the bed, arm above my head.

I pressed down, having a proper poke around.

‘There’s a huge lump,’ I told my partner Kieran, then 20, that evening in May 2019. ‘It’s the size of a golf ball.’

But I wasn’t too worried, thinking it’d be another benign cyst.

Only this time the GP referred me to the breast clinic

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