Woman, 23, stunned as 'pimple' she tried to pop turns out to be fast-growing cancer

A 23-year-old barista was stunned when a lump she tried to pop, thinking it was a pimple, turned out to be a fast-growing cancerous tumour above her left breast. When the bump Siobhan Harrison spotted it while getting dressed in December 2020 grew and became bruised after squeezing it, she suspected it was because she had aggravated it.

Instead, tests revealed she had stage two triple negative breast cancer, leaving her horrified. Miraculously now cancer-free, Siobhan is encouraging young women to check their breasts for lumps 'as it could be lifesaving'.

When Siobhan first saw a bump protruding above her left breast, she just assumed it was a spot. “I could see it," explained Siobhan. "It was clearly visible quite high up on my chest, so I thought it was just a pimple. I tried to pop it but that just made it bruise.

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“I kept an eye on it for a while and noticed it getting bigger, which I thought was because I’d aggravated it.” But it started to worry me, so I booked a doctor’s appointment.”

At her appointment, Siobhan was referred for further tests but was told there was a nine-month waiting list.

She said: “In the end, I decided to go private and paid £200 for an ultrasound. It was there that medics said they couldn’t tell what it was, but thought it might be cancerous and advised I would need a biopsy to find out.”

With her lump now suspected to be cancer, Siobhan was considered a high priority and went in for her biopsy on the NHS on June 22, 2021. “When I got the results, I half expected it to be a cyst or something benign," she added.

"Even though I was concerned about it, I still didn’t expect it to be anything too