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March 24, 2016

Teen's toothache turns out to be cancer

March 19, 2016GeneralNo commentsdaniel

A British teenager thought she was just feeling pain from a wisdom tooth, but it was actually a signal of a bigger issue— a rare and aggressive form of pediatric cancer.

Nadia Hobbs, 18, was massaging her jaw to relieve the pain when she found a pea-sized lump on her jawline, The Sun reported. By the time blood tests ruled out mumps and glandular fever, the lump had doubled in size and she was in “excruciating” pain.

Her mother, Rachel Hobbs, 44, was insistent she undergo further testing and took her to the hospital, where she was diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma, a childhood cancer whereby cancer cells form in muscle tissue. An MRI scan revealed a cancerous tumor in her cheek.

“The size of the tumor completely shocked us all,” Nadia, a student at Exeter College in England, told The Sun. “I couldn’t believe how huge it was.”

Nadia underwent seven cycles of chemotherapy and has two more to go. The size of her tumor has decreased by 75 percent. The teen hopes the six weeks of radiotherapy she recently started will completely eliminate the tumor.

Source www.foxnews.com

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