A 'beautiful and inspiring' young woman has passed away from a rare form of cancer which she initially believed to simply be an 'insect' bite on her shoulder. Jenna Patel had been living her life to the full as she studied to become a primary school teacher when she received her devastating diagnosis, the Manchester Evening News reports.
She sadly died four months after her 21st birthday from an aggressive form of cancer called Ewing’s sarcoma which later fatally spread to her lungs. Jenna, who was from Belmont in Bolton, had spotted a lump on her shoulder in Spring 2021 after some gardening with her mum and brother.
She has visited the GP to be on the safe but assumed that the lump would just be an insect bite. Her doctor thought the lump was likely to be a cyst but sent Jenna for an ultrasound which came back inconclusive.
