The mother and daughter who were diagnosed with breast cancer on the SAME DAY ..

A mother and daughter are recovering after both were diagnosed with breast cancer on the same day.

Karen Williams and her mother, Diane Leach, also underwent surgery on the same day as each other, with the same surgeon.

When they were recovering they were in adjacent wards and could knock on the wall to communicate.

Both were diagnosed in February last year after finding lumps in their right breasts. 

Mrs Williams told of the moment when she and partner, Stuart Burnside, went to tell her mother she'd sound a pea-sized lump while showering.

'I told her I'd found a lump, and she said so have I. I thought she was joking. 

'I went to my GP and she went to hers. I went for a mammogram a few days later and didn't realise my mum was also going. My partner Stuart saw her as we were in the queue.'

She added: 'I was showering when I felt a lump.

'I didn't like the feel of it. Straight away I thought it was cancer. I went to Stuart and said I knew I had it. I just kept thinking oh my God. 

'The doctor thought it might just be a cyst and sent me for a mammogram, but I knew.'

Mother and daughter are now well on the way to recovery after their treatment at the Countess of Chester Hospital, in Cheshire.

Amazingly, their cancers were not caused by a faulty gene and were not hereditary. 

‘It was a crazy situation last year to both be diagnosed on the same day and my two sisters and my dad didn’t know what to do with themselves – they didn’t know who to visit,’ said Mrs Williams, from Ellesmere Port, Cheshire.