Hearing that Girls Aloud star Sarah Harding had been diagnosed with breast cancer was a shock. At 38, she seemed too young, too vibrant, too full of life to be facing such a terrible disease.
But for TV presenter Gloria Hunniford, 80, it was all too familiar and the news took her right back to 1997 when her daughter Caron Keating was diagnosed with breast cancer. “I was dumbstruck,” says Gloria. “Caron was 34.
And like Sarah, she was young, fit and fastidious about her diet. “At the time, I knew of no other young girls with breast cancer.
I was devastated when my gorgeous mum had to have a mastectomy in her 70s, but you half expect health problems in your parents.
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