A mother of two, who once feared she would not live to see her children grow up after a persistent sore throat led to an incurable blood cancer diagnosis, has expressed profound gratitude to be alive 16 years later.
Deb Gascoyne, 50, from Hagley, West Midlands, was just 34 when a precautionary blood test in July 2009 detected smouldering myeloma, an early form of blood cancer.
