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You, Me and the Big C: Putting the can in cancer

#YouMeBigC: Lauren’s story

You, Me and the Big C: Putting the can in cancer

BBC

Health & Fitness, News

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2018

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

“Does that feel normal to you?” : Lauren Mahon, aka Girl vs Cancer, initially put tiredness down to her lifestyle, but went to a walk-in centre to get checked out. She shares her breast cancer diagnosis story with Rachael and Deborah.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Five Live.

0:04.0

Thanks for downloading this teaser for the You Me and the Big Seat podcast.

0:09.0

This is Lauren's Story.

0:14.0

I would diagnose in the August of 2016.

0:17.0

I just found a lump. I'm small-chested and it was a big lump and I found it and there was no doubt about it.

0:23.0

There was a lump there that wasn't there before and it seemed to just come overnight.

0:27.0

But again, if you said like putting all the symptoms down to lifestyle choices like I was a massive party girl before I got poorly.

0:34.0

I was out on the scene. I was always doing something running around town fancy free.

0:39.0

So when I was tired a lot and a bit anxious almost in my own body, I didn't really put that.

0:44.0

I thought I was sketchy. I was sketchy because I was hung over all the time or tired.

0:49.0

I went to my doctor. Actually, I didn't have a lie. I went to a walking centre initially because I just moved house and

0:56.0

I couldn't register the GP. I was like, I shouldn't go and get this lump checked out. It's been there for a month.

1:00.0

I made my friend feel feel it, the lump in a tent, so far.

1:03.0

That's so naive.

1:04.0

No, it's not on the oomph.

1:05.0

In the tent in August.

1:07.0

Yeah, I was like, a tent in August, really drunk. Like, how the feel of that?

1:10.0

Is that your chest up lying for that?

1:12.0

Yeah, I was walking around the festival going, I have a feel.

1:14.0

I was like, what do you reckon?

1:16.0

I went to this walking centre. I said, can you just check this because it's not gone away.

1:21.0

I thought in my head it was a cyst.

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