Jess West, a mainstay on the UK’s adult television channels and online streams for many years, recently took to her social media to announce that she had been diagnosed with cancer
Babestation star Jess West has issued a warning to women to “get checked” after receiving a heartbreaking diagnosis.
Jess, who has starred on the UK adult channel for many years, recently took to social media to announce that she had been diagnosed with Stage Two breast cancer. And while she has now had her right breast removed and rebuilt – as well as surgery on the other to make them even – she says her symptoms were not ones that she expected.
While many of us are aware and have been educated to “look for lumps,” Jess was shocked to discover that her cancer signs were the total opposite. “It was a dent,” she told the Daily Star.
Speaking to us from her home just days after surgery, in a chat available to watch on our YouTube channel, she explained: “So basically there was an indentation in my right breast, which I’d thought I’d had for a long time and I think I had had it for a long time.
“It basically started to get progressively bigger and one of the other girls who I was actually working with – we did a shoot together – she pulled me aside and she was like ‘I don’t want to worry you but you’ve got a dent on your right breast’.
“I had seen it, but now she pointed it out I was confident that it was definitely not just something in my head.”
Jess visited her GP and was referred for a mammogram, followed by a biopsy – the results revealed that her right breast contained three “big lumps” so deeply embedded that they had drawn her skin inward and formed the “dent”.
Her choices were restricted due to the size of the lumps, meaning she could only undergo a double mastectomy with reconstruction.
“I went to cancer counselling with a nurse and she was really good, and from this nurse she changed everything for me because she put my file in front of my new doctor – his name is Simon Smith – he is amazing and honestly I cannot rate him highly enough.
“He has literally saved my life because he saw my folder and was like ‘I’m taking this woman, she’s going to be my patient’.”
The specialist carried out both the removal and reconstruction, leaving Jess with minimal scarring around the sides which helps recovery as the weight is not on the scar-bearing areas.
She also underwent another procedure to preserve her nipples, which were removed and reattached, as the cancer was 3mm away from them.
Jess had always been classified as low-risk for cancer, and having undergone tests, did not show signs of carrying the BRCA cancer gene.
She has undergone further tests revealing that cancer had spread to her lymph nodes, but has not yet disclosed publicly how this will be managed.
And the adult star has issued a warning to fellow women. “Anything at all, like a dent, a lump, like an indentation, or if your skin changes, anything at all, just go and get checked. no matter how small because you just never know .
“Even if you feel like it’s anything that’s not right on your breast area just go and get it checked because like I said the smallest little thing – it can be cancer.
“And especially with dents, as mine was a small dent that started off like this and it progressively got bigger, and the only reason the dent happened was because the tumour inside had got big enough to pull it in.
Source: Mirror
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