Young mum given devastating diagnosis after finding lump not long after giving birth

Nikita Jones, 22, from Wales, was diagnosed with an highly uncommon signifier of crab aft uncovering a lump betwixt her breasts erstwhile her girl Vienna was conscionable 2 months old

A young mum discovered she had an incredibly uncommon signifier of cancer after uncovering a lump erstwhile her newborn daughter was conscionable 2 months old.

Nikita Jones, 22, noticed the lump betwixt her breasts past summertime and initially it was treated arsenic an abscess. However, erstwhile antibiotics failed to wide it, Nikita was referred to a bosom session wherever she was diagnosed with a uncommon signifier of sarcoma - a brushed insubstantial crab - successful August 2023.

Nikita was told she was 1 of lone 2 radical successful the UK with this incredibly uncommon benignant of cancer. Speaking connected her behalf, Nikita's mum Vicki Hughes described the consequent twelvemonth arsenic hellish.

After her diagnosis, Nikita had to hold for country portion titanium ribs were created, arsenic doctors planned to region portion of her rib cage. She underwent aggravated country successful October 2023, which included a treble mastectomy and removal of portion of her thorax plate.

Fortunately, doctors were capable to permission her ribs intact and Nikita, from Port Talbot, was sent to London for six weeks of proton beam therapy treatment. This proved highly challenging, leaving Nikita with burns, reports Wales Online. In March this year, she was fixed the all-clear, but successful the pursuing months, Nikita developed symptom and swelling successful her legs, on with a persistent cough and repeated thorax infections.

Tragically, a shadiness connected the lung of Nikita, detected by doctors arsenic probable inflammation post-treatment, turned into her worst fearfulness aft a CT scan. "She didn't privation that scan, she was tense then, I deliberation she knew," shared her mum, Vicki.

Alarmingly, the scan revealed the instrumentality of crab successful her lungs, and doctors broke the heart-wrenching quality that determination were nary further options; without treatment, Nikita had six months, and with chemotherapy, astir 16 months to live.

The household is reeling from the shock, trying desperately to guarantee Nikita has treasurable moments with her girl Vienna. A person of Nikita's swiftly acceptable up a GoFundMe, astonishingly gathering £3,000 wrong a time to enactment this mission.

Before this devastating revelation, Nikita, alongside her girl and spouse Shaun Williams, had conscionable begun mounting up their archetypal home, hoping for caller beginnings. Overcome with emotion, Vicki expressed, "There is conscionable nary words, I americium mislaid for words," conveying the family's distress.

Determined to look the situation head-on, Nikita is readying a 'f*** you cancer' enactment soon, aiming to marque the upcoming months a tapestry of joyful memories with loved ones.

According to Vicki, the enactment surrounding Nikita is phenomenal, with a "whole village" rallying astir her, including unwavering encouragement from her grandma Catherine, sisters Jordanna and Tanisha, and her wider ellipse of friends and family.