I empathise with Steph and her famaliy as well as all other families affected by cancer.

My mother's sister died age 32 with ovarian cancer, my mother had breast cancer 20 years ago and had a radical mastecomy of the right breast, had a hysterectomy at age 76 because of cervical cancer and she died in March this year because of lung cancer. How much was that to bear 3 bouts of cancer in a lifetime.

My dad died last year of cancer of the oesophagus so we have a long association with cancer in my family.