A veterinary nurse has credited a labrador with saving her life after it headbutted her in the chest - and found her fast-growing breast cancer. Angie Shaw was knocked her over and headbutted by the dog she was treating as she was helping turn him over on the consult table, causing a lump on her chest.
When the lump was still sore a week later, Angie went to the GP who referred her for scans and biopsies which revealed she had a fast-growing form of breast cancer. She had an operation to remove the tumour - which had already grown by two millimetres - just 13 days after her diagnosis.
Without the dog hitting Angie, doctors said the tumour would have taken another ten months to be detected due to its position. Her next mammogram also wasn’t due for about nine months, by which time the invasive grade three cancer would have been too advanced to be able to save her life.
