A 'thankful' young man has decided to give something back after going through years of difficult medical treatment as a child.
21.07.2022 - 10:39 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A mum was refused further testing by doctors after complaining of a painful lump on her breast has now been diagnosed with terminal cancer. The disease has since spread to other parts of her body, including her brain.
Faye Downing, from Sheffield, was 25 when a lump suddenly appeared on her breast. A GP referred her to the NHS breast clinic, but they refused to perform a biopsy or mammogram, telling the Faye that she was "too young" and that the lump was "not fibrocystic".
Faye's family say the lump only got bigger after that. The mother-of-two, who had been breastfeeding at the time, returned to the breast clinic but was again turned away and told the changes in her breast were normal and the result of "breastfeeding a newborn baby".
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Faye's condition continued to deteriorate and she returned to her GP. When she returned to the breast clinic, determined to get to the bottom of her pain and the lump, Faye's worst fears were confirmed when this time a biopsy and mammogram revealed she had cancer.
The diagnosis came at the height of the pandemic and Faye was forced to deal with the news and pain alone. As the young mother, now 29, battled the cancer, doctors discovered a tumour on her brain, reports YorkshireLive.
Faye, who has two children, five-year-old Freddie and Marnie, age two, underwent several rounds of chemotherapy without success. Her sister Hannah Turner, 36, and father Clive Downing, 60, writing on behalf of Faye's family said: "As if our girl hadn’t been through enough she was then told from her check-up scans that the cancer had spread to other parts of the body she continues to fight so hard and be so brave for
A 'thankful' young man has decided to give something back after going through years of difficult medical treatment as a child.
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