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SPECIAL CONNECTION
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Only five months after Penny Hansen married the love of her life in 2014, she discovered a lump in her breast.
“I had regular checks because of a family history of breast cancer, but the lump appeared and grew very quickly,” Penny tells Woman’s Day.
During treatment, doctors discovered Penny was five weeks pregnant. Her breast cancer was sensitive to oestrogen, so pregnancy accelerated the tumour growth.
Penny lost the baby and then had chemotherapy, radiation treatment and a double mastectomy.