I have been lucky to be cancer free for almost 6 years. Will celebrate by attending my first Biggest Morning tea event on that day 24th May. Hope not to be too emotional now.
My mother had a radical mastectomy for a grade 1 Breast cancer in 1979 was cancer free for 15 years and survived for 26 years dying at 77 a year before my diagnosis.
Work colleague had a relative who had surgery back in the 1960s & then lived in her family home until she died of something else 30 odd years later
The constant research into our group of cancers from funds raised at fun runs, pink footy days, Mothers Day classic, pink buns@ Bakers delight, relay for life that meant I got Herceptin via the PBS and Australia has discovered new test for BC and vaccinations to prevent some/most cervical cancers
The fact that BC is relatively easy to diagnose and in a discrete organ with excellent prognosis!