I CONQUERED CANCER

“In 2015 I was diagnosed with breast cancer. I was 17 and doing Grade 11 at Southdowns College. I was oblivious to the changes that were about to happen in my life. Weirdly enough, earlier that year, one of our teachers called all the girls aside after assembly and shared her breast cancer story. She told us about the importance of self-checking and said one in every three women will be diagnosed with breast cancer. Sitting in that room, I didn’t even think that I would be one of them.

There wasn’t a build-up of events, but I woke up one morning and felt a huge