Loren Stokes is supporting Stand Up To Cancer after losing her voice box.
A woman who lost her voice box to a rare cancer says she is proud of her new one and urges others with the condition not to hide away.
She said she started to have neck and shoulder pain and then could not swallow properly before feeling a lump in her neck move during a doctor's examination."When I went for my operation," she said, "the consultant surgeon said we've got you at the right time because a couple more weeks it probably would have closed your windpipe off."
At first she said she felt self-conscious about her new voice but she was now proud of it and encouraged others to be as well. In October 2020, a routine scan showed the cancer had returned in her lungs which currently was inoperable, but she said she remained positive.
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