A woman has revealed how her life was saved after her husband discovered a lump - during a 'frisky fondle' of her boobs.

Samantha Jones and hubbie Leighton were being intimate when he felt a something like a "grain of rice" underneath her right breast."

The mum-of-three from Hendy in Wales didn't think much of it until an appointment with her HRT nurse months later.

She told her to check the breast and Samantha discovered the lump had grown to the size of a "ping pong ball"."

After several scans, the 47-year-old was diagnosed with HR2 breast cancer and and her lymph nodes were cancerous too.

Following intensive chemotherapy Samantha has been given the all clear from the doctors earlier this year.

To raise awareness, Samantha is stripping off to encourage people to check their breasts and pecs.

She said: "My husband's favourite line is 'a quick fondle saves lives'."

'We were being frisky and doing the deed, as you do, and he said

he found something that felt like a grain of rice that was stuck on my rib.

''Afterwards he said 'I felt something on your right breast'.

"If it is not yourself who else knows your body better than you? It is your partner, your wife, your husband. They are going to find something even if you don't."

Samantha's husband first spotted that things weren't as they seemed in September 2024 when the couple were getting frisky.

That December Samantha went to see the HRT nurse and she asked if she had checked her breasts recently to which she replied saying she will do it in that evening.

She said: "That evening I was sat on the loo before getting in the bath and there it was - it had grown to the size of a ping pong ball."

"On the next Monday I was on the phone to the doctors to see if I could get an appointment which is a nightmare in itself, but as soon as I mentioned that I'd found a lump on one of my breasts they got me in pretty quickly."

She then went to the doctors to get it check out, although they weren't too sure what it was exactly.

"The doctor said because it was sitting on my ribs they were not sure if it was cancer or muscular," Samantha added."

After a mammogram nothing was flagged up.

But then doctors did a CT scan where they discovered the cancer.

She continued: "You could see it straight away. It was 12 millimetres. Compared to some it was quite small - thanks to early detection that had paid off."

"They also came across suspicious areas including lymph nodes."

"I tried to chat away and said 'we thought it is probably a cyst but the doctor more or less confirmed there and then it was definitely wasn't a cyst."

In January of this year, Samantha received the heartbreaking news that she had HR2 breast cancer and that her lymph nodes were cancerous too.

She said: "My father died of lung cancer, one of my grandparents had stomach cancer. It is like one of them death sentences. You think 'this is it then, it is going to kill me off'."

"There is nothing nice about it in the slightest. It is like you see on films and TV programmers you are stood still in time and everything around you is just moving. "

"It is hard to process. You are told so much information and you can't take it in - it is too much."

Two weeks after her diagnosis she had her pixie cut and then started her first round of chemotherapy.

"When I was told I was going to loose my hair that it home more in itself than actually being told I had cancer because that is going to make me look even more ill," she said."

"Your hair is what makes you you, it is your personality. It is a lot to take in on top of everything else."

Samantha had six rounds of chemotherapy and remembers the first one "knocking her off her feet."

"For the next 72 hours after the first section all I did was sleep," she said."

"It is quite scary because you don't know what is going to happen to you."

At the beginning of July 2025, she then had a lumpectomy and her lymph nodes were removed.

She got the all clear a fortnight after her surgery.

"I cried like a baby. But kept thinking 'what if it comes back?'"

Now, she is going through 15 rounds of radiation and has so far done 10 sessions.

To raise awareness of breast cancer Samantha has been going to local businesses, getting topless and using items from the businesses to cover her breasts and get pictures taken.

So far Samantha has covered her breasts with tea cakes, cups of coffee and a pints of Guinness.



She said: "They get to use the pictures on their social media platforms to get the word out there and raise awareness to check your boobs, check your pecs in case of man and to be vigilant."

"I find it is empowering. There was a time in my chemotherapy that I have felt awful. So this definitely makes you feel good."

"At the end of the day we've all got boobs. They feed your children."

She is also hoping to raise awareness on breast cancer not just this month but every following month.

And she is hoping breast screening can be done sooner than 50.

She said: "Most women probably don't even know what they are looking for when they are touching their boobs."

"And screening should come down to 25 because more and more women are being diagnosed at a young age."