A woman claims she might not have had to have her breast removed aged just 23 had doctors not dismissed her as being 'too young' to have cancer. Alicia Mcgoogan said she started feeling pain and discomfort in her right breast in December 2021, which she thought was just from her time of the month.
But when her nipple started leaking a yellow-sticky discharge she booked an appointment with her GP and was eventually transferred to the breast clinic at Burnley General Teaching Hospital. The legal recruiter said that a blockage in her milk duct was identified so she had a microdochectomy to remove the duct in January 2022, and discovered it was a benign tumour.
After the procedure, Alicia thought she was out of the woods. But afterwards, the former law student claims she mentioned to a nurse that she'd felt a lump on her breast but they didn't examine it and just said it was scar tissue from the surgery.
