A woman from England discovered she had a deadly cancer after stumbling across an article that lead her to examine a tiny line in her fingernail, which she had ignored for three years. Alana Severs, 36, from Portsmouth, Hampshire, admits that she ignored the embarrassing mark and covered the tiny line on her fingernail with red nail polish to hide it. However, one night in January 2017, Alana came across an article on Cosmopolitan magazine’s website detailing how a line on your nail could be a symptom of an unusual type of cancer. “I thought: ‘No way. That can’t be it,'” Alana said. “I sent screenshots to my partner in an absolute panic and said my nail looks exactly the same.” Alana was terrified that she might have had cancer for so long but ignored the mark. Panicked, she went to her GP the next day and they sent her for an …