article_snippet: Melanie Thorpe, from  Cumbria, found a breast lump while brushing the crumbs from Melanie Thorpe salami and mushroom pizza off Melanie Thorpe shirt.
article_snippet: Concerned, Melanie Thorpe  saw Melanie Thorpe GP and just five days later was given the devastating news her GP had breast cancer.
article_snippet: Melanie Thorpe, with husband Craig, detected a breast lump in her GP breast while brushing the crumbs from her salami and mushroom pizza off her shirt the crumbs her salami and mushroom pizza her shirt .
article_snippet: Just five days after finding a lump, Mrs Thorpe (pictured before Mrs Thorpe illness), was given the devastating news Mrs Thorpe had cancer.
article_snippet: Mrs Thorpe underwent a mastectomy, breast reconstruction and chemotherapy .
article_snippet: Scans revealed Mrs Thorpe actually had two lumps, both of which were cancerous.
article_snippet: In January 2013, Mrs Thorpe underwent eight-and-a-half hours of surgery.
article_snippet: Mrs Thorpe, who is mother to Adam, 29, Alex, 27, and Niall, 20, said: 'I had to have a full mastectomy, but Mrs Thorpe, who is mother to Adam, 29, Alex, 27, and Niall, 20 did reconstructive surgery at the same time. '
article_snippet: Doctors deemed reconstructive surgery to be a success and Mrs Thorpe went on to have six rounds of chemotherapy.
article_snippet: Mrs Thorpe added: 'Doctors told me had I not found the lump so early the lump would have grown and been terminal. '
highlights_snippet: Melanie Thorpe, 52, saw her GP the day after finding the  lump in left breast .
  
highlights_snippet: Was diagnosed with cancer five days later after scans revealed two lumps .
  
highlights_snippet: Underwent mastectomy, reconstruction and chemo and is now cancer-free .