Former Emmerdale actress Malandra Burrows has told of her agony as doctors mistakenly told her her breast cancer was a cyst.
Speaking exclusively to OK! as she revealed her diagnosis, the 56 year old explained how one of the first consultants she saw told her her cancer was a cyst and he “wouldn’t be seeing her again”.
But her relief turned to shock when the third doctor she saw carried out an ultrasound and mammogram and the room fell silent.
Malandra, who played Kathy Glover on the ITV soap for 16 years, said of her journey: “I just happened to catch myself [while exercising] and thought: ‘Good grief, what’s that?’ Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!'s daily newsletter “I thought it must be a gland, but a few days later it was still there, so I rang my GP and they asked if I could come in the next hour,” she explains. “A week later I was at the hospital and the first consultant told me it was a cyst.
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