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Article: Mum in plea on screening STAFFORD: Campaign after tragic loss to breast cancer
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- Evening Mail
- Article date:
- October 5, 2006
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A MOTHER who lost her own mum to breast cancer is urging other
women not to duck out of breast screening.
Alison Smith was just 19 when she lost her mother Patricia Smith
to breast cancer after a long battle against the disease, aged 45.
Patricia was 37 when she first found a lump in her breast.
It was removed with surgery and she had radiotherapy, but four
years later she found a lump under her arm.
But despite surgery and two courses of chemotherapy she developed
secondary cancer in her liver and died.
Now her daughter Alison, mother to seven-year-old Charlotte, is
urging others to bolster research into the disease by taking part in
Cancer Research's All Join Together campaign.
The ...