"They've basically said in the next five years, make memories": Mum tells of devastating cancer diagnosis

A mum told how her devastating cancer diagnosis felt 'like an avalanche' after experiencing pains while having a bath. Stacey Gregson said she experienced a 'shooting pain' out of the blue in her chest area.

Mum-of-three Stacey said she was surprised by the pain and grabbed herself, noticing a hard lump in her breast. "I remember, I got really dizzy and got out of the bath and I was just like, wow," Stacey, 39, from Nelson, Lancashire told LancsLive. "I went to the doctors and I remember thinking, they're going to tell me it's nothing, it's hormonal or something."

She added: "It was tiny [the lump] I don't really know how I even felt it to be honest. You know your own body and I knew then what it was.

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"Everyone was saying, it will be nothing but I said, you don't get lumps there for nothing. It's just one of those isn't it?" Stacey visited her local doctors over a week after first noticing the lump and was seen a couple of days later.

The mum-of-three was told it was unlikely to be anything sinister due to her young age and good health, but more tests would be conducted if anything was found. From there, Stacey says "everything happened so fast" and she underwent a mammogram, a tomosynthesis, a scan of her lymph nodes and a series of biopsies.

After receiving her results, Stacey was diagnosed with breast cancer - news she certainly wasn't expecting as aside from tiredness, Stacey hadn't experienced any symptoms. The mum added: "It's just snowballed, it's been like an avalanche for me.

"They said it's cancer and they see you fairly regularly on a