{"id":512174,"date":"2026-04-04T08:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T08:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/512174\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T08:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T08:07:08","slug":"wigan-womans-17-year-road-to-recovery-after-shock-breast-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/512174\/","title":{"rendered":"Wigan woman&#8217;s 17-year road to recovery after shock breast collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sue, now 71, said she had checked her breasts every pay day, once a month, before she found something and had booked to see a GP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She awoke on the day of the appointment in shock to find her right breast had collapsed, and she was referred immediately by her doctor to hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After tests, a week later Sue was told she had a fast-growing form of breast cancer and was given a poor prognosis. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chemotherapy followed to shrink the multiple tumours found which had attached to her chest wall and made her breast collapse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She then needed a radical mastectomy, which involved removing her right breast, muscles and lymph nodes, before daily radiotherapy. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Later she had her left breast removed as well, and then took the hormone therapy drug tamoxifen for the next 14 years. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The grandmother-of-eight, who lives in Standish, said she feared she might not have reached retirement without the advances made by research.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jane Bullock from Cancer Research UK said: &#8220;We&#8217;re living in a golden age of research&#8221; but she warned there was more to do, with &#8220;nearly 1 in 2 people set to be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sue, now 71, said she had checked her breasts every pay day, once a month, before she found&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-512174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}