Fifty-three-year-old Jean Williams Taylor thought her nails were just ugly, but after posting a photo of them to social media and asking if anyone had ever seen such nails before, her daughter urged her to visit a doctor. The grandmother from Wigan said she felt “ridiculous” going to the doctor over a nail, but a hunch told her to listen to the advice.
As reported by the Daily Mail, doing so ultimately saved her life.
The doctor she made an appointment with immediately recognized her clubbed nails as a symptom of lung cancer, and sent her for a series of tests to confirm the diagnosis. Scans showed two golf ball-sized tumors on both of her lungs. Fortunately, because the clubbed nail was an early symptom of the disease, Williams Taylor’s lung cancer was diagnosed in stage one, making it a rare find and curable.
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