Eight months before Kris Hallenga was diagnosed with stage four breast cancer that spread to her spine, she went to her GP about a lump. I didn’t know anything about them.”Why didn’t anyone tell me to check my boobs? Why didn’t I know I could get breast cancer at 23? Hallenga’s mum, on the other hand, was anxious – her own mother had had breast cancer in the 1950s, before she was 30. “When they find breast cancer, and think that’s still just primary, that’s when it’s urgent.

Source: The Guardian May 19, 2021 05:00 UTC