A STUDENT nurse claims doctors repeatedly dismissed her waxy ear and neck lumps as 'fresher's flu' or 'hay fever'. Now Jasmine Raven, 22, has been left fighting for her life after biopsies of her neck lumps revealed she has cancer. Jasmine first visited her GP in September 2023, after noticing a pea-sized lump on the left side of her neck.
She was told the bump was mostly likely caused a virus but became concerned when more on them popped up on her neck. This time medics Jasmine had an ultrasound, which confirmed that her lymph nodes where enlarged - but medics reckoned it was caused by a bout of 'fresher's flu' . This is a term for the mix of viral infections and illnesses that tend to circulate among students during the first few weeks of the academic year.
Aside from being a third year student at the time, Jasmine only attended classes at uni once a week and never went out partying. The student also suffered from hearing loss in one of her ears, which was put down to wax build-up or hay fever. Jasmine - also a mum to two-year-old Esme - kept insisting that doctors look into her symptoms further and managed to have a biopsy taken of the lumps.
Because I'm young, they just didn't consider the possibility that it could be cancer. I came with one lump and by the time I started treatment it was five or six But she was horrified when results showed that she had nasopharyngeal cancer. This is a rare type of cancer that starts in the part of the throat connecting the back of the n.
