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Nurse who shrugs of pain at work discovers she has a cancerous tumour and has leg amputated to save her life

Sette Buenaventura, 26, nurse and part-time model was working on the coronavirus frontline as a nurse when she noticed a throbbing pain in her leg in April. But shrugging it off as a result of working gruelling shifts at Salford Royal Hospital, she tried to ignore it. However, when the pain grew so bad she struggled to walk she sought help from colleagues - and tests came back revealing that she had a sarcoma in her right leg