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Super-fit gym manager diagnosed with breast cancer at 24 warns she didn’t have a single warning sign

NewsColony Super-fit gym manager diagnosed with breast cancer at 24 warns she didn’t have a single warning sign At 24, Paige Crossingham looked the very picture of health. The manager of an F45 fitness studio on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland exercised alongside her clients every day and spent weekends swimming in the ocean and hiking the challenging trails of her home state with her friends and partner. So when she felt a small, hard lump in her right breast while undressing for bed on Saturday, December 2, 2019, she made an appointment with her GP to rule out anything sinister, but wasn’t overly concerned. Neither was her doctor. Multiple tests and five weeks later on Wednesday, January 8, 2020, she received the devastating news that stage two triple negative breast cancer was growing inside her chest, four months shy of her 25th birthday. Ms Crossingham told Daily Mail Australia she feels ‘very, very lucky’ to have noticed the lump because she was ‘as fit as she had ever bee...