My 'sinus 感染' turned out to be a one in a million nasal 癌 at just 28 - and doctors had to 削減（する） my 注目する，もくろむ out to save me

• Annika, a 28-year-old from California, was 診断するd with a rare nasal 癌 
• The 癌, sinonasal carcinoma SMARCB1, has only been seen in 200 患者s 
• READ MORE: I'm the first person in the WORLD ever 診断するd with my 癌

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A 28 year-old California woman has 述べるd the shock of 存在 診断するd with a deadly sinus 癌 that 影響する／感情s より小数の than one in a million people - and led to the 除去 of her 権利 注目する，もくろむ.

The 'ゴルフ ball-sized tumor', which had spread throughout her 直面する, was first mistaken for a sinus 感染 by the woman's doctors. 

Annika, who 地位，任命するs about her 条件 on TikTok, woke up one morning in 2023 and noticed that the inner corner of her 権利 注目する，もくろむ was sore. 

While she at first thought nothing of it, by the time the eve ning rolled around, 'my 直面する started to really, really 傷つける on the 権利 味方する,' she said in a ビデオ. 

The next day, her 直面する swelled around her 権利 注目する，もくろむ, 誘発するing her to 捜し出す 医療の attention. 

A CT ざっと目を通す in the 緊急 room showed inflammation around Annika's 注目する，もくろむ, 主要な doctors to 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑う she had a sinus 感染. The swelling 減ずるd over a few days, only for it to return about a week later. 

During Annika's second visit to the 緊急 room, 'the doctor felt my 注目する，もくろむ and he was like, "This doesn't feel like a sinus 感染."'

This time, a CT ざっと目を通す 明らかにする／漏らすd a 集まり 'about the size of a ゴルフ ball,' which 'wasn't there three weeks ago.'  

At just 27, Annika was 診断するd with 行う／開催する／段階 four sinonasal carcinoma SMARCB1, which had spread to her 直面する, 肺s, and lymph nodes. 

Sinonasal 癌s begin in the nasal cavity, which is just behind and around the 味方するs of the nose. Several forms of 癌 can grow there, but SMARCB1 is considered to be 極端に rare.

によれば 研究 from the NIH, より小数の than 200 事例／患者s have been 報告（する）／憶測d in 医療の literature. The 熟考する／考慮する also 公式文書，認めるd that it makes up just one パーセント of all 長，率いる and neck 癌s. 

Much is still unknown about the prognosis, but the NIH 明言する／公表するs that most 患者s 生き残る just two to four years after diagnosis, and 'later 行う／開催する／段階 tumors are associated with a worse prognosis.'

Symptoms 含む nasal obstructions, 頭痛s, protrusion of the eyeball, and nosebleeds. 

Annika said that she started chemo 'almost すぐに,' which lasted for nine weeks. 

However, she saw little 改良 and went in for 外科 in December 2023. 

'They also had to take surrounding tissue, which 含むd my 権利 注目する，もくろむ,' she said in another TikTok ビデオ. 

'So what you see now is essentially a piece of my thigh 肉親，親類d of filling that gap.'

'I have been told that it will 肉親，親類d of go 負かす／撃墜する, but it's also a different color because my thigh was a lot tanner.'

Annika is 現在／一般に on an 実験の 治療 計画（する） that 含むs chemotherapy and immunotherapy to slow the spread of her 病気.  

Though the 統計（学） are grim, Annika has 認める that she doesn't know what her prognosis looks like.  

'I know it's not 広大な／多数の／重要な,' she said.

'I know when you read about my 癌 it's "rare, 積極的な, poor prognosis," but no doctor has sat me 負かす／撃墜する and been like "This is how long you have to live."'

My 'sinus 感染' turned out to be a one in a million nasal 癌 at just 28 - and doctors had to 削減（する） my 注目する，もくろむ out to save me