Ms Denise Charity Atwine, a resident of Mende Sub-county in Wakiso District, did a self-breast check in 2018 and found a lump in her right breast.
The lump was the size of a pea.
She told her friend who had lost a mother due to breast cancer about the lump. Her friend recommended a doctor and even picked her from her home and took her to Mulago hospital to meet the doctor.
Upon examination and several tests at the Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI), she was diagnosed with breast cancer but she thought she should get another opinion.
“I got the second and third opinion from different places but one of them was negative. I was in denial so I went back to UCI to do the fourth test and the pathologist refused to do it. He told me to follow my heart. I just went home and I did not tell anyone,” Ms Atwine said.
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