A woman who thought she had an STI has urged people to watch out for ‘red flags’ after being diagnosed with stage four cancer.
Olivia Wallace discovered a lump on her tongue which she was “convinced” was a sexually transmitted infection and she didn’t get it checked out because of the “stigma attached” to it.
She also thought it could have been a recurring ulcer when she initially found it in 2015 but then waited a whole year to courageously visit her GP.
By that point, the cancer had already developed and the 20-year-old was told the devastating news that she had stage four tongue cancer that had spread to her lymph nodes.
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