53-year-old resident of Britain Jean Taylor noticed that her overgrown nails got a strange shape: they seemed to wrap around their fingers.

Daughter Jean Taylor checked on the Internet, because of what is happening. The first thing suggested by the search engine: "hooked nails - a sign of lung cancer". Stephanie insisted that her mother go to the doctor. The doctor immediately gave directions for a blood test and an X-ray.

Over the next three weeks, she underwent computed tomography, positron emission tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, lung biopsy, and a number of other studies.

"Four days of waiting for the results of the biopsy were" the most terrible in my life, "Taylor said..

Despite the fact that she already suspected cancer, it was hard to get confirmation. It turned out that she had the first stage, but the tumors are located in both lungs, each the size of a ping-pong ball.

Soon Taylor will have to withstand an operation to remove tumors from the left, and then from the right lungs. Now she blows 20 balloons every evening to prepare. After the surgery, she will undergo radiation therapy to permanently get rid of the disease.

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