Essie Mitchell first spoke to her GP about a lump in her breast when she was 22. But it took 11 years and three more visits before her cancer was finally picked up, by which time it was too late to operate.
"The proper term for my diagnosis is de novo stage four metastatic breast cancer, which means it was stage four from diagnosis," she said.
"Had I known what my oncologist said to me, she said as soon as you had a lump, no matter if you're under the age of 40, you can ask for a triple test," she said. "Unfortunately, about 20 per cent of breast cancer diagnoses are in women under 50, and close to 1,000 women under the age of 40 were projected to be diagnosed in 2022."
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