Leonie Botten speaks about her breast cancer diagnosis at 29

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00:00 2022. May or June, I first went to the hospital with the lump in my breast. And they did an

00:12 ultrasound, but said that it's just fibrous tissue because my age, it's nothing to be

00:18 concerned of. And they never said if it gets bigger, come back if it gets harder, come

00:24 back, nothing like that. But December, I noticed it was getting bigger and harder. So I booked

00:31 a doctor's appointment, went to that in January, they said that they was concerned about it.

00:38 So booked me back in the hospital. And then when I went back, they did another ultrasound,

00:45 then didn't like what they saw. And then they told me that it was curable. And it will just

00:52 be a long year ahead with all the treatment. But then after the scans, they realized that

00:59 it's spread. So said, sorry, it's not curable now. And it first went to my liver. And then

01:08 after some more scans, a few weeks later, it then gone to my spine. And yeah, now it's

01:16 in my pelvis, my lung, my left lung, my right axilla, if that's how you say it. So my right

01:25 shoulder blade. I can't remember where else now. It's in a lot of places. Yeah, when I

01:32 went in June 2022, if they had noticed it straight away, when it was a small lump, then

01:40 yeah, it wouldn't have been in my organs by then. It would have just been a case of probably

01:44 a lumpectomy, chemo, and then sorted. But yeah, once it's spread, there's not much they

01:53 can do. So they say.