A dad who thought it "felt funny" when his daughter elbowed him in his chest discovered he was living with breast cancer.
Phil Alderson, from New Brighton, was playing with his daughter Evie in 2016, when he began experiencing discomfort after he was nudged in his left nipple. Later that day, Phil discovered a small, pea-sized mass on his chest and decided to visit his GP to get it checked out.
After undergoing an ultrasound, biopsy and mammogram, Phil, who was 44 at the time, was told he had stage two breast cancer. The dad-of-one told the ECHO: "My daughter elbowed me and it was only a couple of hours later I was lying there and I could feel something wasn’t right. I was like, ‘What is that? Something is there.
