A Selfie Could Tell You If You Have This Thyroid Cancer Symptom

For Teen Vogue, by Brittney McNamara. When actor and producer Lorna Nickson Brown was diagnosed with cancer in 2015, she says she went numb because she couldn't understand how she — a 26-year-old who felt totally fine — could be seriously ill. But it turns out Lorna was exhibiting a classic symptom of thyroid cancer that can be detected through a selfie. Lorna had a lump on her neck, which she told Indy100 is a tell-tale sign of the cancer. Lorna went to the doctor after her mother noticed a bump on her neck, and that's when she received her diagnosis. "I felt numb. I didn’t believe it because I felt so well," she told Indy 100. "This isn’t what I thought cancer looked like." Lorna was able to get surgery and recover, but now that she's healthy she wants everyone to know that there's no one way cancer looks. It can look like a young, otherwise healthy, successful woman, and that's why we all need to know its other signs. To help spread awareness, Lorna has teamed up with the UK-based charity Get-a-Head, an organization that supports people with head and neck diseases and cancers. Related: Gigi Hadid Opens Up About Her Weight Changing From a Thyroid Disease According to the American Cancer Society, symptoms of thyroid cancer include a lump or swelling in the neck, pain in the front of the neck that sometimes goes up to the ears, hoarseness or other voice changes, trouble swallowing, trouble breathing, and a constant cough that's unrelated to a cold. In Lorna's case, s...
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