Global cancer cases rise at alarmingly high rate – why are so many young women getting deadly disease?

A month before her 21st birthday, Amy Clark was given the earth-shattering news that she had stage four lung cancer.

It was a moment Amy, now 26, describes as: “Like having an out-of-body experience,” so shocking was the diagnosis.

Amy Clark was given the earth-shattering news that she had stage four lung cancer before her 21st birthday Amy Clarke with her partner Danny before getting cancer

“I couldn’t really process what the nurse had told me. I had lung cancer that had spread to my rib and lymph nodes.