Being diagnosed with breast cancer is often described in terms of being ambushed — and for younger women perhaps this is especially the case, thinking as they do that cancer is an older woman’s problem.
That’s how it was for Lauren Russell, aged 33, physically active and feeling very much to be in her prime, regularly walking and going to the gym. Lauren says she felt herself to be too young to even think about cancer, to the extent that she wasn’t examining her breasts for lumps or changes.
“I wasn’t even examining myself because I thought I was too young,” she says.
But then, in 2018, she found “a little bump” that was tender to the touch. Even then she didn’t think it was much to worry about. But her husband urged her to get it checked out.
Still she waited a few weeks before going to the doctor who didn’t seem overly concerned. “She said it was probably nothing but sent for a biopsy just to be sure.”
And there it was. “I went to see a surgeon. The first one wanted me to have a mastectomy. Then I found a doctor who said he could do a lumpectomy.”
What followed was five months of chemotherapy, followed by three months of radiation therapy. Exercising whilst undergoing chemo is a complex business, with particular challenges, not the least of which is finding the motivation when the body demands to be left alone to rest.
“I was told that walking would help and it did: I didn’t throw up once!”
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