‘After breast cancer killed mum I knew I'd get it - I don't want to suffer like she did’

ok.co.uk:

Property expert and TV presenter Sarah Beeny, 50, was diagnosed with cancer in August after finding a lump in her breast and has now started chemotherapy.

Her mother passed away from the disease when Sarah was just 10 years old. Janis Deville-Hallam, 59, from Weston-super-Mare, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2018.

She says she knows exactly how Sarah feels having the same disease that killed her own mum. Here Janis shares her story... "The first thought that entered my head when I was diagnosed with breast cancer aged 55 was, 'Oh no – I’m going to suffer in the same way that Mum did.' So when Sarah Beeny revealed that she ‘knew’ she would one day get breast cancer like her own mother had, I knew exactly how the TV star felt.

It can feel like a death sentence waiting to spring itself upon you. My mum, Eileen, was a similar age to me when she was first diagnosed with breast cancer, back in 1984.