On a seemingly normal day in September 2015, Lum May Yee, who was 42 then, woke up from what she thought was a straightforward surgery, only to be told that she had breast cancer.
The first inkling that something was wrong happened three months earlier in June, when the mother-of-two discovered a tiny lump on her chest.
“It was not even on my breast, it was actually just here, see?” She points to a small scar located just slightly above her right breast. “It was very tiny, but it was hard and smooth.”
She assumed that it was a blocked milk duct as she had just stopped breastfeeding her son, but decided to book an appointment with her
