A woman has been left with a ten-inch scar across her neck after a lump she thought was caused by her braces turned out to be cancer.
Kimberley Hattersley-Barton, 22, who also only has two thirds of her tongue left, is releasing pictures as a warning to others.
Kimberley, from Wakefield, West Yorkshire, had already overcome cancer at a young age after she was diagnosed with rare childhood soft tissue cancer, rhabdomyosarcoma, when she was just 13 months old.
After several rounds of chemotherapy and radiotherapy she was given the all clear at two-and-a-half-years-old, but she was left with several long-term chronic health problems including kidney failure and cardiomyopathy.
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