A young woman in the UK has claimed to have been diagnosed with cancer, a month following doctors attributed the cause of her lump on her neck to a cold, according to reports from the Daily Mail.
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Last March, 28-year-old Paris Wells noticed she had a lump on her neck. As soon as she saw it, she called her doctor. However, the only appointment she might get was in five days by phone.
Instead of waiting five days, Paris went the next day to an emergency clinic affiliated with the Princess Royal University Hospital in Kent. Doctors Ms Wells met told her her bump ‘did not appear to be cancerous’. According to them, the bump had been caused by a cold which the young woman had suffered a week earlier.
But, over the weeks, the bump got bigger and harder.
Seeing her condition, Paris Wells asked her aunt, a radiologist working at the same hospital, if she might do an MRI double check in April.
After taking tests, the results confirmed that her lump was not related to a cold, but rather stage two Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a rare cancer that develops in the lymphatic system and spreads throughout the body. body.
“My mother came with me to my appointment. When the results came in, I was asked if I knew what Hodgkin lymphoma was. I answered them yes. The doctors told me that I suffered from that”, she says in an interview with the Daily Mail.
Three-quarters of people with this cancer survive for at least ten years.
The young woman will begin chemotherapy in the coming months.
Greenbrooks Healthcare, which runs the clinic Ms Wells visited, was contacted by the Daily Mail.