I discovered the lump in my breast during my second trimester. This being my first pregnancy, and as I have no family history of breast cancer, I wasn’t alarmed by this change. When I complained to my antenatal team via Telehealth (I became pregnant during Sydney’s Delta Covid wave), they said it could be a blocked milk duct. No one suggested I come in for a physical examination or proposed the changes to my breast were anything but pregnancy-related.
It wasn’t until my GP examined me as part of a standard shared-care appointment that suspicions were raised. He referred me to an urgent ultrasound. Within a week, I was admitted for a biopsy at a cancer centre. Receiving the biopsy result days before Christmas, reality struck: I was pregnant with cancer.
