A woman who felt a 'niggling pain' in her leg was diagnosed with an 'incurable' cancer. Jo Hodkinson felt an ache when she was out on her walks with her pet dog Elvis and decided to visit the doctor.
The 48-year-old accountant was given the devastating diagnosis that the breast cancer that she had been treated for 10 years ago had returned to her hip, thigh and pelvic bones, the Manchester Evening News reports.
The has had to undergo major surgery that would leave her in a wheelchair. Speaking about her diagnosis, she said: “It was pretty much a decade to the day since I had finished my treatment for breast cancer. In spring 2011 I had a lumpectomy followed by chemotherapy and radiotherapy.