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Woman realizes she has breast cancer due to hair extensions
Laura Larkin, 25, from the Scottish city of Livingston, has realised she had a tumor in her breast when she combed her hair after a shower.
According to Unilad, the 25-year-old had been regularly putting in hair extensions for around two years, loving the extra volume and length it gave her.
"I’d just got out of the shower and I was running my fingers through my hair when I reached the ends of them and brushed past my breast. I felt this really hard lump which I had never noticed before at the bottom of my right breast," she said.
"I was in total shock. I thought I’d beaten cancer, the mammograms were coming back clear. I felt this lump and my heart just stopped. I knew the cancer was back," she added.
Gene tests revealed she had the BRCA2 gene, commonly known as the breast cancer gene. "Considering I was booked in for a lumpectomy within a week of them diagnosing me with cancer and it had already progressed to stage three, it’s scary to think what could have happened to me if I hadn’t found it when I did."
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