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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Adam Maidment

'It's so important': Mum's warning after symptom she was told 'was nothing to worry about'

A Salford mum who was diagnosed with cancer at 32 despite being told a lump in her breast was ‘nothing to worry about’ has urged people to seek a second opinion if they feel that something isn't right.

Karli Durrant, from Swinton, was diagnosed with stage two breast cancer during the lockdown after having an intuition that something wasn’t quite right with her body. Over the months that followed, she underwent gruelling operations, chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

Karli first visited her GP in February 2021 after discovering a lump in her breast. “I went to my GP and he said he wasn’t concerned,” mum-of-one Karli, now 34, told the M.E.N. “At the time, I was in the best possible health I could have been in.

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