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But a radical idea which she suggested to her surgeon has led to what is believed to be a pioneering world first procedure - transplanting a healthy reconstructed breast to replace a cancerous one.In September 2020, Nicola had just finished with breastfeeding her first child and was returning to work as a geography teacher in her home town of Swansea when she found a lump.

By October it was diagnosed as cancer and she started five months of chemotherapy at Singleton Hospital, followed by the double mastectomy.Nicola, now 38, said: "Even though I only had cancer in the one breast, my maternal aunty and maternal grandmother also had had breast cancer previously. I thought 'I'm young, let's just get rid of everything and do as much as we can'."She had reconstructive surgery using skin and tissue from her abdomen in a procedure known as a DIEP (deep inferior epigastric perforator) flap.

"It meant I had natural breasts which would grow and shrink with my bodyweight over time and I wouldn't need implants that would need changing in 10 or 15 years," she said.Because the cancer was oestrogen-fuelled, she was placed on hormone suppression therapy for at least two years.

"We knew at the time I was diagnosed that we wanted to have another baby eventually, so we waited for two-and-a-half years actually.

"All the oncologists we saw were of the same opinion that I was at no increased risk, because I'd had a complete pathological response [no sign of cancer post-treatment]."with the SNP facing "significant difficulties" at the time.

Swinney also said he would focus on improving public services - such as cutting waiting times for GPs - and mitigating the cost of living crisis before the 2026 Holyrood election.The sound of Arctic wind howling through the strings of Sarah Smout's carbon fibre cello on the pack ice connected to the North Pole is like nothing she has heard before.

She joined a group of artists from all over the world on a trip to research and be inspired by the "breathtaking and absolutely vast" landscape of the Arctic Circle.The musician and poet spent 16 days on board a specially-equipped ship in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard and experienced temperatures of -15C.