Mississippi state representative battles breast cancer and beats it
PINE BELT, Miss. (WDAM) - Four years ago, state representative Omeria Scott (D) says she knew something was wrong when she discovered a large lump in her left breast.
“I woke up April 21st, that Friday morning, and I thought that I was lying on the remote…,” Scott said. “I looked for it and couldn’t find it. And, you know, I turned back over again, and I felt something large on my arm and I thought that it was the remote. But then I located the remote and I still felt it and I said, ‘Oh my God, this is a lump.’”
She had stage three triple negative breast cancer.
“I don’t think I heard anything else that they said after they said the word cancer to me,” Scott said.
Scott says she had been getting yearly mammograms which is in part why the news came as such a big shock. However, she didn’t know her breast tissue required her to have more extensive tests.
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