Dog saves nurse's life after headbutting her in chest at vet's to reveal hidden cancer
dailyrecord.co.ukA nurse says a dog saved her life after headbutting her in the chest at a vet's. Angie Shaw says the incident helped her discover that she had breast cancer.She claims that her road to diagnosis began when she was knocked her over and headbutted by a labrador that she was treating.
Wales Online reports that that the collision with the animal caused a lump on the nurse's chest.A week after the headbutting, Angie says the lump was still sore and visited her GP for treatment.
A doctor then referred her for scans and biopsies which revealed she had a fast-growing form of breast cancer. Angie then had an operation to remove the tumour, which had already grown by two millimetres within a fortnight of her diagnosis.
Doctors says that without the dog knocking over the nurse, the tumour would have likely taken another ten months to be detected.
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