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I was told I was too young to have cancer - it had spread by the time I was diagnosed

I was told I was too young to have cancer - it had spread by the time I was diagnosed
Figure caption, Beth Jenkins' cancer was initially missed after told she was "too young" to have the disease

A woman who said she was told by a GP she may be experiencing "medical anxiety" after finding a lump in her breast was later diagnosed with cancer.

Beth Jenkins, 42, visited a locum GP at her practice with concerns that a lump on her right breast had grown significantly. But she said she was told she was "too young to have breast cancer" and it may be linked to postnatal depression instead.

However, it was lobular breast cancer, external, with a 5cm (2in) tumour and the disease had spread to three lymph nodes.

Practice 1 Keir Hardie Health Park said it could not discuss individual cases but encouraged patients to "make a second appointment" if they had concerns about their health or care.

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