‘After cancer diagnosis my husband was terrified of coming near me – he saw my pain’ Not expecting to find cancer aged just 39, Antonia Diggle wasn’t even sure what she’d felt on the top of her breast was even a lump “It was more of a ridge shape,” explains Antonia, a commercial interior designer from Oldham, Greater Manchester.
Diagnosed with breast cancer on Christmas Eve in 2018, Jackie Knutton kept the news from her three children and husband Rob until Boxing Day.
Now 46, the mum-of-two says, “My mammograms hadn’t started yet but within two weeks I was sent for a biopsy and that day I was told I had Stage 3 HER2 breast cancer.
Jackie, 59, who lives Bowden, Cheshire, says, “They found four tumours in my breast during a routine mammogram when I was 53.
“Sex was painful for me and my husband Damien was scared to death of coming near me because he could see the pain in my eyes.
