An aggressive form of breast cancer has unusual symptoms most women fail to notice, researchers have suggested.
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Property expert and TV presenter Sarah Beeny, 50, was diagnosed with cancer in August after finding a lump in her breast and has now started chemotherapy. Her mother passed away from the disease when Sarah was just 10 years old. Janis Deville-Hallam, 59, from Weston-super-Mare, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2018.
She says she knows exactly how Sarah feels having the same disease that killed her own mum. Here Janis shares her story... "The first thought that entered my head when I was diagnosed with breast cancer aged 55 was, 'Oh no – I’m going to suffer in the same way that Mum did.' So when Sarah Beeny revealed that she ‘knew’ she would one day get breast cancer like her own mother had, I knew exactly how the TV star felt.
It can feel like a death sentence waiting to spring itself upon you. My mum, Eileen, was a similar age to me when she was first diagnosed with breast cancer, back in 1984. She had a lump, but it was growing inwards and so wasn’t picked up until she had a routine mammogram.
Read More Related Articles TV presenter Sarah Cawood diagnosed with breast cancer and will be on medication for years She had a partial mastectomy and radiotherapy, and for years, we thought she’d beaten the disease. But after her sisters developed it, she started to worry that we might have the BRCA gene, which impacts the likelihood of developing breast cancer. The truth is, our family is riddled with it.
Mum was one of six sisters, and four of them have developed the disease in midlife. My aunt Shirley was 45 when she was first diagnosed, and at 61 she died of secondary breast cancer that had spread pretty much everywhere in her body. Mum went to Bristol hospital to be tested for the gene, and it was a relief when it came
.An aggressive form of breast cancer has unusual symptoms most women fail to notice, researchers have suggested.
Olivia Newton-John, Kylie Minogue, Rita Wilson, Maggie Smith and Jennifer Saunders have joined a whole galaxy of stars who have shared their own personal experiences with breast cancer.EXCLUSIVE: Remembering Olivia Newton-John - Her family, Dolly Parton, Sir Cliff and more share memoriesNot only does it raise awareness but celebrities who choose to speak out about their own diagnosis can also help remove the stigma associated with cancer. In our Breast Cancer Awareness Month special, HELLO! spoke to Cancer Research UK about why celebrities telling their stories can make a difference...Information nurse at Cancer Research UK, Julia Frater, said: "It can have a huge impact when celebrities diagnosed with cancer choose to speak about their experiences publicly.
Olivia Newton-John gave her friend and country singer Kelly Lang the strength to "continue on".EXCLUSIVE: Remembering Olivia Newton-John - Her family, Dolly Parton, Sir Cliff and more share memoriesIntroduced through their mutual friend Sir Barry Gibb – they both had an instant bond as mothers, singers, writers and a shared connection to breast cancer that Olivia called thrivers. Kelly, a 17-year breast cancer thriver, had to put a "brave face" on when she was diagnosed with breast cancer at 36, with two young girls to look after.Now in our Breast Cancer Awareness Month special, the musician has lovingly talked about how her friend Olivia inspired her with her "big heart" and was like a "big sister" to her.She told HELLO!: "Having been a breast cancer patient myself, she gave me the strength to continue on.
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Elizabeth Hurley has spoken from the heart about her "enormous sadness" over losing her grandmother to breast cancer.READ: Remembering Olivia Newton-John - Her family, Dolly Parton, Sir Cliff and more share emotional memoriesAs the Global Ambassador for The Estée Lauder Companies' Breast Cancer Campaign, the actress shared her expertise and knowledge with HELLO! for our Breast Cancer Awareness Month special. The mother-of-one revealed she is "so proud" of her campaigning efforts and hopes her grandmother would be too.Speaking openly about her own experiences with self-checking and mammograms, Elizabeth has an important message for women everywhere…Elizabeth: That my grandmother didn't talk about her diagnosis, is a source of enormous sadness to me – and I feel that if she'd been diagnosed today with what we know now, with the advances they've made in treatments, with diagnosis, with awareness, the way we talk about it, I feel it could just have been different for her.
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Rachel Zegler is using her platform to raise awareness about breast cancer early detection. The 21-year-old actress took to her Instagram Stories over the weekend to detail a health scare she faced at only 19 years old and encourage others to take early detection seriously.«Two years ago I found a lump in my breast and went through what was undoubtedly the scariest week of my life,» she wrote over a photo of the scar she was left with after undergoing a procedure due to the scare.
Deidre Sanders, who's best know for featuring on This Morning, has been diagnosed with "high grade" breast cancer.The devastating news comes after the 77 year old agony aunt wasn't invited to her routine mammogram appointment "by error". Deidre has revealed that she has "a teeny, tiny carcinoma" – a cluster of malignant cells in a duct – in her right breast, and that it has been labelled as "high grade". She's soon set to undergo surgery to remove it.
Rachel Zegler took to social media to share details about a health scare. The 21-year-old West Side Story star revealed on her Instagram Stories a snap of the scar she had after a biopsy to discover she had breast cancer when she was 19.“Two years ago, I found a lump in my breast and went through what was undoubtedly the scariest week of my life,” she wrote over the photo. “No OB/GYN was taking new patients due to the backlog of the pandemic, but I was fortunate to have the care of my pediatrician who prescribed me an ultrasound, which led to an out-patient biopsy procedure,” she added.
Rachel Zegler shared details about one of the most traumatizing weeks of her life. The 21-year-old actress, known for her leading on "The West Side Story," shared a story on Instagram over the weekend about a biopsy procedure she had at 19.The post was shared temporarily via Instagram Stories and featured a photo of a scar on Zegler. "Two years ago I found a lump in my breast and went through what was undoubtedly the scariest week of my life," Zegler said in the post, according to People Magazine. "No OB/GYN was taking new patients due to the backlog of the pandemic, but I was fortunate to have the care of my pediatrician who prescribed me an ultrasound, which led to an out-patient biopsy procedure," she added. "Thankfully it was benign." Actress Rachel Zegler revealed she had a biopsy procedure at 19 to remove a lump from her breast. (Raymond Hall/GC Images) "And now the scar serves as a reminder to check my breasts regularly for any irregular growth – the fibroadenoma in my left breast is a common occurrence but nevertheless extremely scary to find.