An ex-Lancashire police officer believes her dieting “saved” her life after she dropped two stones - and then discovered a potentially fatal tumour on her breast
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She said: “I do think my weight loss saved my life. If I hadn’t lost those two stones initially, the cancer wouldn’t have been picked up until three years later. She said: “I was a police officer until 2015, so I was always relatively fit. I was in an active job, and then when I took my early retirement, I became more sedentary. I thought to myself, “You need to get a bit of this weight off.”Lindsey was initially thrilled when she lost two stone in a matter of months, but then she found a worrying lump on her left breast while she was washing one morning. She said: “Within two or three months, the weight had started to come off.
Lindsey eventually booked an appointment with her local GP in October 2018 and was stunned when she was then referred to a specialist breast screening unit. She said: “I went down to the GP that afternoon, and I said, “I’m embarrassed but I just wanted to get it checked out because I’ve spoken to friends about it.
Lindsey explained: “They said the tumour was 4.5cm, and I thought, ‘Bloody hell, that’s big!’ I said, ‘What would have happened if I hadn’t had come?’ She said: “Due to me being diagnosed with cancer, we brought everything forward because at that point I didn’t know which way things were going to go. I had said to my wife: ‘If something happens to me, we need to be married. I don’t want my police pension going back to the government!’”