“I am a very positive person and told myself “come on girl you can do this one day at a time.”

I want to raise awareness of the importance of attending for your mammogram, it saved my life.

“I feel so lucky to have discovered I have the mutation and to be able to act on it. This means that my risk factor is now lower than that of the wider population.""

“This chapter of my life has changed me it has made me stronger and will now push myself out of my comfort zone.”

“What have I learned from all of this? Live simply, give more, expect less.”

“I was shocked at how many people do not check their breasts and are not breast aware.”

“I look and feel like a very different person and I will be forever grateful that I have had the opportunity to live potentially many more years than the last generation of women in my family.”

This journey is not just medical, it’s also personal and it matters that who we are as individuals is recognised.

“Because I was so fit and busy, I didn’t pay attention to the tiredness and fatigue I was feeling.”

“I kept returning to the same spot at the top of my breast, then began comparing it with the other side.”

“I wasn’t ill and I couldn’t feel the lump when I stood up but despite thinking it was nothing, if I hadn’t sought help straight away my story could be very different. “

“I thought that the consultant was talking to someone else when he told me I had breast cancer.”