{"id":19470,"date":"2020-02-06T21:48:07","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T21:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmshub.wpengine.com\/?p=299926"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:16:50","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:16:50","slug":"at-27-she-was-told-she-was-too-young-for-breast-cancer-now-shes-terminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/at-27-she-was-told-she-was-too-young-for-breast-cancer-now-shes-terminal\/","title":{"rendered":"At 27, She Was Told She Was Too Young For Breast Cancer \u2014 Now She\u2019s Terminal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sherrie Deacon noticed a lump in her breast when she was only 27 years old. Deacon\u2019s grandfather had gone through breast cancer and had a BRCA gene mutation, so she was concerned.<\/span>With her family history in mind, Deacon immediately made an appointment with her GP.<\/span>During her appointment, she insisted on diagnostic testing. Her doctor listened to her concerns, and thought that the lump didn\u2019t feel like a benign cyst should. She referred Deacon to get a mammogram and ultrasound, and told her that it would happen with two weeks.<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: Facebook\/Sherrie Deacon<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/span>However, Deacon\u2019s appointments got pushed back<\/a>. And when she called to see about booking an appointment sooner, she was told by staff that she wouldn\u2019t have breast cancer because of her age.<\/span>\u201cI was quite taken aback by that comment as they didn\u2019t know about my family history,\u201d Deacon said<\/a>.<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: GoFundMe\/Send Sherrie to Japan<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/span>So Deacon went through a doctor who provided private medical care (instead of the nationally funded public medical care in the UK) and was able to make an appointment much sooner.<\/span>Within a week, she was diagnosed with stage II breast cancer.<\/span>\u201cIt was absolutely devastating and it shook us all,\u201d Deacon said<\/a>. \u201cWe did suspect it was cancer, but until you\u2019re told it doesn\u2019t really hit home.\u201d<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: GoFundMe\/Send Sherrie to Japan<\/span>
\n<\/span>Then, CT scans later on confirmed the worst: the cancer had spread to her sternum and spine, and she was terminal.<\/span>She began treatment immediately. After she started to lose her hair because of chemo, she decided to get ahead of it and cut off her long hair so she could donate it to Little Princess Trust, which offers real hair wigs to young people who experience hair loss.<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: GoFundMe\/Send Sherrie to Japan<\/span>There is something wonderful on the horizon, though. She is planning on marrying her partner of almost 10 years, Ana, in June.<\/span>\u201cAna has been absolutely amazing throughout all of this. We first met at university 10 years ago,\u201d she said<\/a>.\u201dWe were planning on starting a family and maybe adopting but that has been put on hold as I don\u2019t think I\u2019d be allowed to adopt a baby with secondary cancer.\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: Facebook\/Sherrie Deacon<\/span>Treatment is going well, and her care team has been amazing.<\/span>\u201cI hope the cancer remains \u2018dormant\u2019 in my system for as long as possible,\u201d Sherrie said<\/a>.<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: Facebook\/Sherrie Deacon<\/span>
\n<\/span>She also has some advice for other young women.<\/span>\u201cIf you are young and you suspect something is wrong with your breast, don\u2019t be fobbed off. It\u2019s uncommon, but not unheard of to get breast cancer at my age and if I hadn\u2019t gone private then who knows if I\u2019d still be here now,\u201d Deacon said<\/a>.<\/span>Source<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sherrie Deacon noticed a lump in her breast when she was only 27 years old. Deacon\u2019s grandfather had gone through breast cancer and had a BRCA gene mutation, so she was concerned.With her family history in mind, Deacon immediately made an appointment with her GP.During her appointment, she insisted on diagnostic testing. Her doctor listened […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19471,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44340,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19470\/revisions\/44340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}