"I was lounging at home, watching TV, resting my hand on my chest when I came across it," Rosalba instructed Express.co.uk.

"The blood drained from my face, I'd never felt anything like this before. I asked my husband to feel it and he too seemed alarmed."

Quick to contact her physician, Rosalba was promptly referred to her native breast centre, the place she underwent an ultrasound and biopsy.

"After an agonising week, I used to be referred to as and instructed there was no proof of cancer," Rosalba recalled.

Yet, six months later, following a routine mammogram, the docs recognized most cancers that had unfold to her lymph nodes.

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"After being told the cancer had spread, I felt terrified," Rosalba shared. "I cried."

Rosalba considered her baby, Roberto, who was solely 12 on the time of her stunning prognosis.

"This is what upset me the most," Rosalba confessed, frightened her son would lose his mum at such a younger age.

Determined to beat most cancers, Rosalba underwent two surgical procedures and began chemotherapy in July 2021.

"The surgeries, chemotherapy and hair loss I could cope with, but the thought of not being here for my son was unbelievably upsetting.

"It was at this level my fabulous GPs, who I contacted virtually every day, determined to place me on anxiety remedy.

"Since then and after finding out the cancer had not spread to any further nodes, I was so much happier and positive."

In February 2022, the mum began 18 rounds of radiotherapy, which Rosalba described as "simple and straightforward".

Rosalba is adamant she "wasn't nervous or frightened" because the "actual radiotherapy takes seconds".

She defined: "You are very well prepared for it in advance. In my case, I was taught how to practise breathing, and holding my breath to lift my chest as far away from my heart as possible.

"I skilled no uncomfortable side effects aside from a slight discolouration to my chest."

While Rosalba hasn't officially been given the "all-clear", she has been discharged.

Her only requirement is to take Tamoxofen for 10 years, which will be reviewed annually, and to have yearly mammograms.

Rosalba is supporting Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life 2023, in partnership with Standard Life.

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