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Gran needed surgery to remove her face after going to doctors with what she thought was a 'bogey'
A grandmother whose “bogey” was an aggressive form of skin cancer is terrified that life-saving surgery to "remove" her face and replace it with a prosthetic will leave her "looking like Freddy Krueger”. When mum-of-three Sheila Chadwick, 64, first felt something in her right nostril in January 2021 and could not wipe it away, she was not worried as her GP thought it was simply a wart - only for her life to be turned upside down by a cancer diagnosis six months later. After the "wart" spread to cover her entire nose, she had two major operations and 40 gruelling rounds of radiotherapy, only for the cancer to persist. She now needs surgery later this month to remove her nose, top lip and part of her top gum in a bid to survive.
