Doctors 解任するd my ありふれた 'hormonal' problem...it was 現実に 行う／開催する／段階 4 癌 that's spread to my brain
A young 癌 患者 who has run out of 治療 選択s has 警告するd those under 50 never to assume they're 'too young' for 癌―after doctors 解任するd her symptoms for three years 予定 to her age.
Lea Hughes, now 38, first spotted a small lump on her 権利 breast 老年の 29, in 2015.?
But the former fashion marketer was told by her GP, on several occasions, that she 'didn't qualify' for その上の 実験（する）ing 予定 to her young age and the fact no one in her family had 苦しむd 癌.
Doctors instead told her she just had 'lumpy breasts', known medically as fibrocystic tissue.?
This is 害のない, bumpy, tender breast tissue that arises as a result of hormonal fluctuations 誘発する／引き起こすd by the?menstrual cycle.
However, three years later, in 2018, she noticed another worrying symptom.?
'I was putting a bikini on and I saw a 影をつくる／尾行する and a dimple [on my breast],' she said.
'When I explained it to doctors on the phone, they referred me straight to the hospital.'
Lea Hughes, 38, first spotted a small lump on her 権利 breast 老年の 29 but was 安心させるd her 'lumpy boobs'
Lea Hughes was told the 破滅的な news she had 行う／開催する／段階 four 癌 that was incurable
Ms Hughes, from The Wirral, underwent a mammogram and ultrasound ざっと目を通す, followed by a 生体検査 on the dimpled lump.
Doctors 配達するd the 破滅的な news that the breast lump was 癌, and 成し遂げるd その上の 実験（する）s to see if the 病気 had spread throughout her 団体／死体.???
'They did 十分な 団体／死体 ざっと目を通すs―MRIs, PETs and bone ざっと目を通すs,' she said. 'They learned it had spread to my 肝臓 and bones.
'I was 診断するd with 行う／開催する／段階 four incurable 癌 in a 事柄 of weeks in April 2018 on Friday 13th, of all days.'
麻薬 治療s managed to keep the 癌 under 支配（する）／統制する for a number of years, and in June 2022, she underwent a?選び出す／独身 mastectomy, followed by chemotherapy.?
The combination of 治療 kept the 病気 stable for two years, until a 決まりきった仕事 ざっと目を通す in August 2024?showed her 肝臓 tumours had began to grow.
その上の imaging 明らかにする／漏らすd that the 癌 had also spread to her brain.?
'With?行う／開催する／段階 four breast 癌, you know it can spread to the brain and you do worry,' said Ms Hughes.
Lea Hughes in hospital during 放射線療法 治療 after 存在 診断するd with 行う／開催する／段階 4 癌
'But I didn't 推定する／予想する it then, because I had no symptoms at all.'
In September 2024 she started whole-brain 放射線療法, followed by another 一連の会議、交渉／完成する of chemotherapy.
A その上の blow （機の）カム in March this year, when she began 苦しむing breathing difficulties.?
実験（する）s 明らかにする／漏らすd the 癌 has spreas to her 肺s, resulting in a build-up of four and a half litres of fluid, which doctors had to drain during a risky 手続き.?
Now, Ms Hughes is 中途の through her sixth course of chemotherapy.
She is fundraising to 接近 a 的d 癌 麻薬 called Enhertu, which is not 広範囲にわたって 利用できる on the NHS for women with her type and 行う／開催する／段階 of 癌.?
Without NHS 基金ing, it can cost over £10,000 per cycle.
'I always try to lean into the 肯定的な...受託するing how sh***y this is, but also not giving in,' she said. 'But it does feel very real when things don't work.
Lea Hughes receives 癌 治療 in hospital?after 存在 診断するd with 行う／開催する／段階 4 癌
Lea who was 診断するd with incurable 癌 wearing a 冷淡な cap during chemotherapy 治療
'I can't believe everything I've been through. You don't realise until you sit 支援する and 反映する.
'But I have no choice just to get on with it and keep fighting.'
It comes まっただ中に an 爆発 of 癌s in young people, which has baffled 専門家s.
In the UK, about 2,400 women 老年の 39 and under will be 診断するd with the 病気 each year, によれば the charity Breast 癌 Now.
But those 統計（学） mask a creeping, 上向き 傾向. In 2023, a US 熟考する／考慮する 設立する that 癌s of all types were on the rise for younger women―but curiously not men.
While for women they 増加するd 全体にわたる by more than four per cent, for young men there was a 下落する of almost five per cent.
A 熟考する／考慮する?published that year in the British 医療の 定期刊行物 Oncology, 設立する that globally 早期に-onset 癌s ロケット／急騰するd by 79.1 per cent between 1990 and 2019.
Breast 癌 made up not just the largest number of these 事例／患者s, but the largest 部分 of deaths from any form of 癌 in under-50s.
