EXCLUSIVE: Jess West is one of the UK’s most legendary adult stars, and she has now issued a major health warning after being diagnoses with stage two breast cancer
Babestation legend Jess West has issued a warning to women to “get checked” – but not how you might think. Jess, a mainstay on the UK’s adult television channels and online streams for many years, recently took to her social media to announce that she had been diagnosed with Stage Two breast cancer.
And while she has now had her right breast removed and rebuilt – as well as surgery on the other to make them even – her story is not necessarily the same as most women in her horrific position.
While many of us are aware and have been educated to “look for lumps,” Jess was shocked to discover that her cancer signs were the total opposite.
“It was a dent,” she told the Daily Star.
Speaking to us from her home just days after surgery, in a chat available to watch on our YouTube channel, she explained: “So basically there was an indentation in my right breast, which I’d thought I’d had for a long time and I think I had had it for a long time.
“It basically started to get progressively bigger and one of the other girls who I was actually working with – we did a shoot together – she pulled me aside and she was like ‘I don’t want to worry you but you’ve got a dent on your right breast’.
“I had seen it, but now she pointed it out I was confident that it was definitely not just something in my head.”
Jess went to her doctor and was sent for a mammogram, followed by a biopsy – the results of which showed that her right breast had three “big lumps” in them, so deep inside that they had pulled her skin in and created the “dent”.
Her options were limited, due to the size of the lumps, so she could only have a double mastectomy with reconstruction.
“I went to cancer counselling with a nurse and she was really good, and from this nurse she changed everything for me because she put my file in front of my new doctor – his name is Simon Smith – he is amazing and honestly I cannot rate him highly enough.
“He has literally saved my life because he saw my folder and was like ‘I’m taking this woman, she’s going to be my patient’.
The expert performed both the removal and reconstruction, and left Jess with minimal scars around the sides as this helps aide recovery due to the weight not being on the scar-baring parts.
She also had another procedure to save her nipples where they were removed and reattached, as the cancer was 3mm away from them.
Jess had always been classed as low-risk for cancer, and having had tests, did now show signs of having the BRCA cancer gene.
Since our conversation, she has had further tests to show that cancer spread to her lymph nodes, but has not yet made public how this will be handled.
With her cancer recovery journey now underway, the adult star has issued a warning to fellow females.
“Anything at all, like a dent, a lump, like an indentation, or if your skin changes, anything at all, just go and get checked. no matter how small because you just never know .
“Even if you feel like it’s anything that’s not right on your breast area just go and get it checked because like I said the smallest little thing – it can be cancer.
“And especially with dents, as mine was a small dent that started off like this and it progressively got bigger, and the only reason the dent happened was because the tumour inside had got big enough to pull it in.
“I didn’t really take any notice. I didn’t know. So, my message would be, no matter how small, if you have something that’s wrong, go and get it checked.”
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