But a British actress wanted to raise awareness of a lesser-known symptom when she shared a photo that has since gone viral — a lump on her neck. Idy100.com reported that 26-year-old Lorna Nickson Brown initially thought her thyroid nodule, which presented as the lump, was harmless. “This isn’t what I thought cancer looked like,” Brown, who is known for her role in Agatha Christie’s “Poirot,” among other films, told the website. “We don’t speak openly about illness, so you can feel quite isolated,” Brown told the website. “It can feel quite lonely.”FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK FOR MORE LIFESTYLE NEWSThe American Cancer Society projects there will be nearly 57,000 new cases of thyroid cancer in the United States in 2017.

Source: Fox News March 08, 2017 18:33 UTC