A Tesco employee was left feeling like she had been given a death sentence after discovering a pea-sized lump on her breast in the bath.Debbie Layfield, 44, was in the middle of running a bath at her home when she answered a phone call from a family member who had discovered a lump.
The mum-of-three tried to reassure her family member that the lump would likely be nothing to worry about, but when she got into the bath moments later at her home in Claughton, Wirral, she was shocked to find a lump on her own breast.
Debbie, whose youngest child was in primary school at the time, went to see her GP following the chance phone call and she was immediately referred to the Clatterbridge Cancer Centre, The Mirror reports.
Debbie underwent a series of tests and just mere hours later, she was told that she had breast cancer.Meanwhile, Debbie's family member was told she had a non-cancerous lump.
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