WHEN Joanne Taylor welcomed her baby girl into the world, she couldn’t wait to spend quality time bonding with her daughter.
But Joanne, who was 38 at the time, was just a few months into her parental leave when her world was turned upside down.
The mum-of-two, from Saddleworth, had lifted her arm to scratch underneath her right breast when she discovered a small lump.
Joanne, now 55, visited a doctor and was referred for further tests. Tragically, she was diagnosed with breast cancer just two weeks later.
Joanne can recall the moment she was given the news. “It was absolutely devastating,” she told the M.E.N. “We had our son and we were happy having a little girl.
“It was a shock, an absolute shock. Not just to me, to the whole family, too. At 38, you just don’t expect these things. You think it will be something hereditary.
You think ‘if I haven’t got any cancer in my family I’ll be okay’.”
Joanne underwent gruelling treatment and was declared cancer-free not long after her diagnosis in 2013.
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