Sarah Beeny opens up about her breast cancer journey in an upcoming Channel 4 documentary
03.06.2023 - 12:40
/ msn.com
Every year almost 56,000 British women are diagnosed with breast cancer - that's 153 each day. It goes without saying this is news no woman ever wants to receive but property guru Sarah Beeny, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in August last year, feels grateful she found out when she did. "All my life, I'd lived in particular fear of being told I had breast cancer as my mother Ann passed away from the disease - which spread to her brain - when I was 10 years old, and she was 39," says the broadcaster.
""I always assumed that I, too, would receive a diagnosis. But so many advances have been made since my mum's diagnosis. ""Having cancer has made me stop being frightened of the disease in a way.
It's forced me to lift the lid on the thing and just kind of face it, rather than fear it. If it's caught early, breast cancer is no longer the death sentence people used to think it was. I feel extremely lucky I was diagnosed in 2022 and treated over the following months.
Also, very lucky the disease hadn't spread anywhere else. "Nonetheless, it's been a tough year for Sarah, now 51. Her treatment involved undergoing a double mastectomy, radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
Happily, she received the all clear a couple of months ago but says she will be forever on her guard. "Technically speaking, it means my treatment's finished and that there is no more cancer," she explains. "It's a bit like, 'So far, so good'!""Hopefully it is the end, but I'll always have to be vigilant, have regular check-ups, take certain drugs for a very long time and contact my doctors again if I suspect it might have come back.