I discovered 20 tumors in my body after using a popular beauty tool and was diagnosed with stage 4 melanoma after a mole I had removed turned into cancer READ MORE: I was diagnosed with skin cancer at 22 despite never tanning By Maiya Focht Health Reporter For Dailymail.Com Published: 11:51 EDT, 21 June 2024 | Updated: 17:47 EDT, 21 June 2024 e-mail 25 shares 9 View comments A 26-year-old has a trendy beauty routine to thank for saving her life after she discovered a lump in her neck that turned out to be stage 4 melanoma. Helen Bailey, a realtor from Alabama , was using a spatula-like tool to reduce inflammation in her face in a technique called gua sha when she rolled the device over a lump in her neck.
She immediately called her doctor. It grew quickly, developing approximately from the size of a gumball into a plum. Little did she know, the lump was a warning sign of the 20 tumors that had invaded her body, all spawning from a cancerous mole on her back she had removed years prior.
But now it was back, and more aggressive than ever. Ms Bailey, now 28, was diagnosed with stage four metastatic melanoma, an aggressive form of skin cancer with only a 22 percent chance of survival. In order to treat her melanoma, doctors sent Helen Bailey through multiple surgeries to excise tumors and gave her immunotherapy, a rapidly developing field of cancer medicine.
Miss Bailey's cancer spread from her skin to her lymph nodes, where it then spread to the rest of her body. She said she ha.
