Coronation Street star found lump while filming ahead of cancer diagnosis

Former Coronation Street prima Victoria Ekanoye has opened up astir the infinitesimal she recovered a lump successful her bosom portion filming for a BBC One show.

The actress, who played Angie Appleton successful the ITV soap, was diagnosed with DCIS (ductal carcinoma successful situ) successful October 2021.

DCIS sees the cells wrong the beverage ducts crook cancerous and previously, Victoria explained the lump connected her bosom was truthful big, she didn’t person to look for it.

Her find of a 2nd lump successful her bosom happened erstwhile Victoria was filming for Death successful Paradise, wherever she played a quality called Miranda Priestly.

The prima explained that she recovered it portion simply adjusting her microphone connected set.

‘It was decidedly a play of clip wherever a cardinal different things were going connected successful my mind. I didn’t adjacent I didn’t privation to deliberation astir it being bosom cancer’, she told the Mirror.

‘I retrieve being connected acceptable for Death successful Paradise and I was conscionable adjusting my microphone, due to the fact that they enactment it connected antithetic parts of your covering to benignant of obscure it, and I was conscionable adjusting my mic, and I felt a 2nd lump successful the aforesaid breast.’

Due to the information Death successful Paradise films connected the land Guadeloupe, it near Victoria successful a presumption wherever she had to transportation connected filming for her job, and past code the substance erstwhile she got home.

She added: ‘I was evidently frightened but besides truly aggravated astatine that infinitesimal due to the fact that I conscionable thought, “Well, what presumption americium I successful now? Do I spell back, oregon is it conscionable much of what they think?”. Because they thought it was possibly mastitis and calcification owed to blocked beverage ducts and things similar that.

‘So, I conscionable had to benignant of instrumentality myself disconnected into country and conscionable person a chat with myself oregon a pep speech and beryllium like, ‘Look, there’s thing you tin bash astir it close now.

‘You’re present to bash a job. You’re present with your mum and your son, you conscionable request to support them. Get the occupation done, past get location and bash thing astir it.’

In 2024, Victoria took to societal media to uncover the quality she is present crab free.

In a station connected X Victoria shared a household representation of her alongside her spouse Jonny Lomas  and their lad Théodore.

‘Taken the time I revealed my Breast Cancer diagnosis, 2021. Just received my humor & PET scan results, I tin yet say…I’m CANCER FREE,’ she penned.

‘Thank you to those who formed my information net. I’m humbled to person specified beauteous humans successful my life. 2024 Let’s go!’

The prima has besides been engaged moving connected a amusement called ‘The Naked Truth’ to item ‘all sides of cancer’ and, successful particular, the deficiency of aboriginal diagnosis for radical of colour.

‘Knowledge is powerfulness and we can’t perchance not pass the aboriginal generations,’ she explains.

‘We are trying to instil anticipation that crab isn’t the decease condemnation radical utilized to fear. The much we talk, the longer we live.’