I found lump days after mum was diagnosed with breast cancer, says Charlotte Crosby as she opens up on family pain
thesun.co.ukAFTER learning she was expecting her first child, television star Charlotte Crosby was on cloud nine. However just weeks on from being told the happiest news of her life, Charlotte was handed a devastating blow when her mum, Letitia, was told she had breast cancer.
In an exclusive interview with The Sun, the pair are now calling upon the government to lower the age of mammogram screening invitations after Letitia, 53, was diagnosed with the disease after the routine procedure. “Mam had no symptoms,” Charlotte, 32, says. “There were no signs.” Letitia, who starts chemotherapy and radiotherapy in a fortnight, continues: “It was just a routine mammogram, I have never missed one.
When they told me it was cancer I was floored. “I no symptoms, no lumps, nothing. The mammogram has helped save my life – they should be inviting women of all ages to one every single year.
Not just women over 50.” read more on charlotte crosbybaby boom Charlotte Crosby shows off growing bump in Mauritius as she counts down to birthBUMP ALONG Inside Charlotte Crosby’s glamorous babymoon at £400 a night Mauritius hotel Charlotte, along with her dad, Gary, 54, and little brother Nathaniel, 17, rallied around Letitia in the days which followed – including a series of painful biopsies and scans on the 11 millimetre tumour in her breast.
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