Speaking as a cancer survivor, being diagnosed is just about the best thing that can happen to you if you're unlucky enough that your body has already made the mistake and generated a tumour.

Diagnosis means the start of treatment, the start of dealing with it all both emotionally and physically, the start of recovery and the start of the rest of your life.

Crossed fingers that what the biopsy finds is not a dangerous tumour at all, but if it does then well done you on taking yourself for the screening that found it.

I'm speaking as a realist here- you can't change whether you have a tumour, but you can certainly change how you react to it and how you fight and recover from it.

It took me 12 years of treatment to finally get my all clear, but I've finally been discharged by my oncologist now. I've learned so much about myself, what's important to me and my purpose in this life as a result of being ill and my life has been made so much richer by that learning that I can't say I was sorry that I was ill. I like the post cancer me much more than the neurotic, flaky, uptight and stressed me that existed before the big C too

Be well and happy rachel.