An ex-police officer believes her dieting “saved” her life after she dropped two stones - and then discovered a potentially fatal tumour on her breast. Lindsey Nottingham had joined a local slimming group when she was 47 as she wanted to “get a bit of weight off” following her early retirement.
But the former bobby with Lancashire Constabulary grew concerned after noticing a “hardened” lump on her right breast just a few months into her new regime. And Lindsey was shocked when doctors diagnosed her with stage two breast cancer after discovering that her 4.5cm (1.7 inch) growth was a potentially deadly tumour.
Married Lindsey, now 51, has undergone extensive drug therapies and four operations, which have thankfully forced the cruel disease into remission. However, specialists told her there would have been a “very, very different story” if her tumour had only been found during her statutory mammogram tests at 50.
