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I was a busy personal assistant in my forties when I was diagnosed with breast cancer in September 2013. I had started jogging (or plodding as I described it)with a girlfriend once a week about [...]

My sister-in-law, Leanne, was diagnosed with breast cancer in August 2015 and it really had an emotional impact on me. She was facing the daunting journey of surgery, chemotherapy & [...]

2015 – certainly not my finest year! I was a busy 35-year-old mum of two and working part-time when I was diagnosed back in June last year with triple negative breast cancer. Over nine months I [...]

I received my diagnosis in January 2015 on my 56th birthday. A different cancer in each breast. It wasn’t quite the birthday present that I had been expecting. The response to the question, ‘What [...]

I was 45 years old when I heard the words ‘You have breast cancer’. My life changed in an instant. As the mother of a three-year-old girl and a five-year-old boy, I finally had the family I had [...]

My mum Fiona was my best friend and one of the strongest people I have ever known. In 2004 when I was 12 years old, Mum was initially diagnosed with breast cancer. She didn’t let this [...]