- Latest news▼
-
15:11, April 24 Zombie deer disease possibly linked to hunters’ deaths
-
12:27, April 23 Appetite: Scientists found out the secret to the appeal of large portions of fast food
-
10:33, April 23 Scientists test new approach to fighting viruses
-
08:38, April 23 Ketamine may help with postpartum depression
-
22:12, April 22 Unhealthy amount of sugar found in baby food products of a well-known brand
-
19:41, April 22 Air pollution puts health of more than 1.6 billion workers globally at risk
-
17:25, April 22 Scientists found baked goods and lack of sleep to be more dangerous than alcohol
-
16:02, April 22 342 cases of measles recorded in Armenia so far in 2024
-
15:29, April 22 BrainStimulation: electrical brain stimulation alleviates anxiety and depression in the elderly
-
08:27, April 22 Cognitively stimulating jobs in midlife could lower dementia risk in old age, study finds
-
20:37, April 21 Environmental Health Perspectives: Microplastics ingested with food and water can spread from the gut to the brain
-
22:41, April 20 Scientists develop new method to safely stimulate immune cells to fight cancer
-
20:46, April 20 Blood test can determine who is at risk of developing multiple sclerosis - scientists
-
18:36, April 20 Next pandemic likely to be triggered by flu - scientists
-
12:16, April 19 Scientists grow human mini-lungs in lab
All materials
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."
Photo: Globallookpress.com
Follow NEWS.am Medicine on Facebook and Twitter
- Video
- Event calendar
- Archive
- Most read
month
week
day
- JAMA Oncology: Urine test can help rule out high-grade prostate cancer with almost 100% accuracy, study shows 1232
- Daily Mail: Elderly woman in China gets infected with brain-eating amoeba 1179
- Obesity: exercising before breakfast helps you lose weight faster 1161
- The Conversation: childhood trauma can cause pathological hoarding 1160
- Daily Mail: Satiating food reduces cravings for sweets, nutritionist says 1137
- Scientists grow human mini-lungs in lab 1127
- Next pandemic likely to be triggered by flu - scientists 786
- Scientists found baked goods and lack of sleep to be more dangerous than alcohol 711
- 342 cases of measles recorded in Armenia so far in 2024 674
- Blood test can determine who is at risk of developing multiple sclerosis - scientists 654
- Scientists develop new method to safely stimulate immune cells to fight cancer 649
- Cognitively stimulating jobs in midlife could lower dementia risk in old age, study finds 635
- BrainStimulation: electrical brain stimulation alleviates anxiety and depression in the elderly 588
- Air pollution puts health of more than 1.6 billion workers globally at risk 441
- Unhealthy amount of sugar found in baby food products of a well-known brand 435
- Find us on Facebook
- Poll