Having cancer saved my family
Dec 23, 2019
3 minutes
WORDS: FIONA DUFFY.
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Back in May 2015, I was taking a shower when I discovered a strawberry-sized lump in my left breast. I’d found lumps before that turned out to be blocked sweat glands, but this felt different.
The thought of having breast cancer at the age of 26 was unthinkable, and the diagnosis a month later, in June 2015, left me reeling. I just remember firing questions at the specialists, like,
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