A woman's 'niggling pain' while walking her dog turned out to be something much sinister.
Jo Hodkinson was walking her dog, Elvis, when she suddenly noticed an ache. Visiting the doctor's, Jo, 48, was devastated to be told the breast cancer that she had been treated for 10 years ago had returned to her hip, thigh and pelvic bones.
Jo, an accountant, 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. I had taken tamoxifen (hormone therapy for breast cancer) for a decade and felt like I’d made it. But you couldn’t write it, the timing was unreal."
