My GP surgery said I had a cold but it was thyroid cancer and listening to my instincts saved me. Now read the definitive guide to thyroids - and how to know if something's wrong with yours By Julie Cook Published: 12:15, 23 May 2024 | Updated: 12:28, 23 May 2024 e-mail View comments When Abi Phillips thinks over the last couple of years, it is not with fondness of the good times she should have enjoyed as a 20-something. While her friends were busy with their lives, Abi was being treated for cancer – and it was a cancer that was only spotted in time because she trusted her instinct.
Abi, now 30, was 28 when she suddenly found two lumps in her neck. 'I was getting in the car to take my dog for a walk when I felt a strange tug sensation in my neck as I bent my head,' she says. 'That's when I thought to feel my neck.
I wondered if it was lymph nodes so at first wasn't worried, but I still rang my GP surgery.' Abi got an emergency appointment with the nurse who said she had 'absolutely nothing to worry about and I was probably getting over a cold or illness', she recalls. Abi Phillips underwent surgery for thyroid cancer after discovering two lumps which appeared 'overnight' in her neck Abi Phillips, left, with former Love Island contestant Demi Jones, who was also diagnosed with thyroid cancer about a year after first entering the villa 'To which I replied, I wasn't.
But she then said she wouldn't be able to put any wheels in motion until I'd had my lumps for at least two mon.
