How one grandmother stays positive despite three bouts of cancer

Kirsty Priest, 53, from Stourbridge in the West Midlands, says she has faced three separate cancer diagnoses in 15 years: stage three breast cancer twice, and a brain tumour earlier this year. After breast cancer first struck at 38, she underwent a mastectomy plus surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and 18 months of Herceptin. About 10 years later a new lump led to a second mastectomy and further treatment, and doctors then identified a CHEK2 gene mutation that can at least double lifetime breast cancer risk. Following removal of the brain tumour, she is in remission and has raised £11,500 for Russells Hall Hospital’s breast cancer ward, while continuing fundraising and support work.