When Jennifer Baker was told by her GP that she had to see a hospital specialist immediately, she knew something serious was going on. Jennifer, 59, had discovered a lump on her upper thigh while sitting out in the sun on a warm day in 2020.
Thinking it was just a cyst, she wasn't even sure whether to bother her GP. But she did and arrangements were made for the cyst to be removed.
However, when the results came back, Jennifer, who is married and from Suffolk, was shocked to learn that what she had thought was a harmless cyst was in fact merkel cell carcinoma- an aggressive and very rare type of skin cancer.
