The teenager gets a diagnosis of cancer by noticing a strange symptom when she drank alcohol (exclusive)

You need to know

• Hanna Bordage was diagnosed with cancer 19

• Bordage suffered chronic neck pain before diagnosis

• She now shares her story online to warn people about allegedly unknown cancer symptoms

Hanna Bordage never knew that neck pain could be a sign of cancer.

After graduating from high school, she went to university in New Brunswick, Canada, where she played university football. Despite the interesting beginning of the new chapter, the 19-year-old was constantly tired and felt that he did not play full abilities. However, she just cooked it up to all the latest changes in her life.

After a while, she began to experience chronic neck pain, but could not find out its cause. Before wood, hoping to become a doctor one day, Bordage conducted biology classes, hoping to find out its problems.

“I remember thinking,” I wish I could find out what’s wrong with me, what’s wrong with my neck, “she says to people. “The only strange symptom that could not be explained was the one where I had neck pain when I was drinking.”

“I would drink alcohol, and in five to 10 minutes, I would have pain in my shoulder, my neck,” she adds.

In addition to neck pain, Bordage suffered night sweating, but thought it was due to the fact that her dormitory temperature was hotter than her childhood home.

It was only when she got into her head through football practice that she was sent to the doctor. While they were checking if she had suffered a concussion, they discovered something much more serious.

When the doctor performed a whole body scan, she noticed that Bordage had a heart murmur. Her doctor then ordered an echocardiogram (echo) and an electrocardiogram (ECG). To cover their foundations, Bordage also asked for MRI.

After all tests, Bordage was asked to return to the hospital the next day. That’s when the doctors revealed that she had found a 12 centimeter tumor near her heart. Initially, her doctors suggested she could have blood cancer.

“It took days and weeks, and when I finally got a biopsy, that’s when they saw that it was a late phase of Hodgkin’s lymphoma. They told me,” You will need to do chemotherapy. You will need to do 12 rounds, and if it doesn’t work, you will need radiation, ”she recalls.

According to the American Cancer Society, the usual symptoms of Hodgkin’s lymphoma include swollen lymph nodes that can cause pain in drink, fever, night sweat and lethargy.

Bordage credits her family, friends and football team for being an endless support system.

“For a lifetime, and especially to my teens, I was 20 at the time, I was shown friendship. I was shown empathy. I was shown how to respond to the circumstances you didn’t want to happen,” Bordage shares.

Bordage shared her experience in social media, documenting how her life changed when she was treated, and offering advice to other teenagers who are experiencing the same thing.

Bordage, now 22, says that strangers who have cancer often turn to it through direct message to get tips and support.

“I didn’t wait too long. At the end of January I posted a video saying, ‘Hey guys, I have cancer, and at the end of December I was diagnosed,” she says. “I wanted to talk as many people as I had a new perspective and wanted to share it.”

“I was able to die or I was able to live. I wanted to show people that you can go through things that are completely intimidated, it would shock your nucleus and change you forever. You can continue to be a positive, optimistic version of yourself,” she adds.

After six months of chemotherapy, Bordage sounded The Bell in 2023. June 29th. She recently celebrated her two years of cancer.

With this new life lease agreement, Bordage Stills plans to enter the medical field, hoping to investigate its type of cancer. She also wants to become a patient’s lawyer, advocating for herself during treatment.

“I was diagnosed with 16 December 2022 and I was symptoms of a year before I was diagnosed,” she says. “I looked at how many people feel lonely when they can’t find answers to my problems and how I was so privileged that I had access to all these doctors, I still couldn’t find answers.”

“Now I’m an assistant to my university research and I do cancer research on a specific type of cancer I had, and that job is very important to me,” she adds.

Bordage now continues its studies and hopes to go to medical school. She says she wants to offer care and treatment to other patients to whom she had access.

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