But Barboza played the patient role a little too well — startling the doctor, who noticed some disturbing signs and encouraged her to get her neck officially checked out, the New York Post said Newsflash reported. .
Barboza took his advice and learned she had papillary thyroid carcinoma, the most common type of thyroid cancer, the Post reported. .
"When I found out, my world collapsed," Barboza, 22, told Newsflash of her 2020 diagnosis. .
By the time Barboza's cancer was caught, it had spread to other parts of her neck like her esophagus, Newsflash reported