Would you have known this is a sign of breast cancer?

A mum-of-three has opened shared a photo of her breast online in an effort to urge other women to pay more attention to their bodies.

Sherrie Rhodes was just 37-year-old when she noticed an odd-looking dimple on her right breast while she was trying on a swimming costume.

Two days later, the East Yorkshire woman, made an appointment with her GP and after receiving a biopsy, she discovered she had breast cancer.

“Yesterday I was diagnosed with breast cancer,” the mum said in the eye-opening post on Facebook.

“It came as a total shock as this dimpling (in the pic) is the only symptom I had.”

Sherrie said she “wasn’t too worried” about receiving the results back from the biopsy because “there was no lump or anything”.

“Unfortunately it came back as breast cancer,” she wrote.

“Please check your breast regularly and don't ignore anything that is different.

“If I hadn't seen a post like this previously I wouldn't have known that this dimpling was a sign of cancer.”

Speaking to the Hull Daily Mail, Sherrie said she knew straight after the diagnosis that she needed to put the picture on Facebook to warn others.

"It's an intimate area and I was nervous about doing it but thought I'd do it in a delicate way and thought it would be worth it if it helped just one person,” she said.

"If I hadn't seen a post like this previously I wouldn't have known that this dimpling was a sign of cancer."

According to Cancer Council Australia, women should note these changes in the breats and see their GP if they have any questions.

"a new lump or lumpiness, especially if it's only in one breast
a change in the size or shape of the breast
a change to the nipple, such as crusting, ulcer, redness or inversion
a nipple discharge that occurs without squeezing
a change in the skin of the breast such as redness or dimpling
an unusual pain that doesn't go away."

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