A woman who felt a 'niggling pain' in her leg was left devastated after being told that she had 'incurable' cancer. Jo Hodkinson, 48, noticed the ache in her leg while out on her walk with her pet dog Elvis, which prompted her to visit the doctors.
The accountant was handed the heartbreaking diagnosis that the breast cancer she had been treated for ten years ago had returned to her hip, thigh and pelvic bones. She has had to undergo major surgery that would leave her in a wheelchair, Manchester Evening News reports.
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. 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.
