Jenna Patel was enjoying life to the full and preparing to become a primary school teacher when she discovered what she believed to be an 'insect bite' on her shoulder. Just four months after her 21st birthday, she was dead from an aggressive form of cancer.
Jenna, a former Turton High School student from Belmont in Bolton, was in the middle of her studies when she spotted a lump on her shoulder after gardening with her mum and brother in spring 2021. She assumed it was an insect bite, but to be on the safe side visited the GP to get the lump checked out.
The GP assumed the lump was a cyst, but sent Jenna for an ultrasound which proved inconclusive. Jenna was placed on a waiting list for an MRI and continued to enjoy her work placement at Devonshire Primary School in Bolton.
