A Scots cancer survivor says her instinct to get her symptoms checked out early after a freak accident means she has lived to see her daughter’s wedding day.
Elaine Henderson, 62, from Carluke, was hillwalking when she was hit in the chest by a tree branch, leaving her with a lump and bruising. The physiotherapist initially thought it was a soft tissue injury but when it failed to settle after a fortnight she called her GP.
She was referred to the breast clinic for a biopsy, where her breast cancer diagnosis was confirmed within a week in May 2018.
