I had double mastectomy after finding deadly lump – breastfeeding my son saved my life, says Corrie’s Victoria Ekanoye

thesun.co.uk:

INSTEAD of preparing for her first Christmas with her baby son, Victoria Ekanoye had to have her breasts removed and rebuilt.

The ex-Coronation Street actress had been diagnosed with cancer in October last year, aged 39, and it took two weeks after her op before she dared look at the result — but when she did she wept with relief.

She says: “I composed myself and looked in the mirror. I was alone. It was incredibly emotional. I felt overwhelming relief because not everyone gets to have an operation that could save your life.”  Victoria, who played Angie Appleton in Corrie but quit the ITV soap in 2019, tells The Sun on Sunday how she found a lump on her breast last July while feeding her then six-month-old son Théo.

Terrifyingly, she immediately knew what to expect, as she is the fifth member of her family to have had breast cancer. Victoria, who is backing our Get Checked campaign, says the lump was so big she did not have to look for it.