When Lucy found a lump in her breast, she didn't think of cancer at all. It was just a coincidence that they found out about it, otherwise they were not in the habit of checking.
"I thought I would start doing this when I was 50," he told the BBC.
Lucy had a bad test. She was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 26.
Earlier this month, British singer Sarah Harding died of breast cancer.
After her death, CoppaFeel, a breast cancer awareness organization, saw a rush on its websites.
In the 12 hours since the news of singer Sarah Hardinge's death broke, more than 200,000 people have visited the site, eight times more than usual.
This charity encourages young women to keep checking their breasts.
Despite being diagnosed with cancer in women aged 25-49, a quarter of young women are unaware that breast cancer can affect them, the charity told the BBC's NewsBeat.
"The doctor is silent"
It was just a coincidence that Lucy went to have her gland examined. She was off work and she was free so she went for a checkup.
"I think about it all the time," she says. I'm glad it was my day off. "
"It simply came to our notice then. That's why I'm here today. "
Even when Lucy's general physician sent her to a breast clinic, she did not think it could be breast cancer, but when her sister insisted on an ultrasound scan, Lucy began to realize that Something is wrong
"The doctor was completely silent," she says.
A week later, Lucy was told she had cancer, and it soon began to spread.
Lucy was told she would need chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery.
"There was a time when I couldn't eat or sleep," she says.
"I would stay awake for 20 hours a day and not move at all from where I lay in bed."
"I started to look weird, my skin got damaged, all my hair fell out, even my eyelids and eyebrows."
After surgery and radiotherapy, Lucy finally got some good news. In them, Kessner's cells were gone.
