"A MASSIVE shock" is how Emma Reid described her breast cancer diagnosis in May last year.

At just 32, the Buronga mother of two said she was certain the lump in her breast was a cyst.

"When I went to get it checked, they pretty much knew there and then when I did the ultrasound (that it was cancer)," she said.

"But I had the kids with me -- that's how sure I was that it was going to just be a ...