A Scots student nurse who was diagnosed with stage four cancer after experiencing no symptoms has told of how her life was turned upside down.
Alix Maitland had been working 12-hour shifts as a student nurse during her second year at Edinburgh Napier University, as well as working at a local ice rink.
The 20-year-old felt no different from normal but after finding a pea-sized lump in her neck, she contacted her doctor. Alix initially believed she had swollen lymph nodes, as she has had a swollen gland in the side of her neck since she was a child.
But the young student was shocked when tests revealed the small lump was stage four Hodgkin's Lymphoma, which had spread to her neck, chest, bones, and spleen.
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