
Five years after her breast cancer diagnosis and mastectomy, Julia Bradbury reflects on how the experience reshaped her outlook on life.
“Cancer saved my life in so many ways. We tend to carry on because we’re too busy to stop. And we do - until we don’t,” she tells Woman magazine. “When your health, mobility, movement, and capacity to operate on a daily basis is under threat, you’re forced to look at what’s important. I had to think, ‘How do I want to live my life from now on?’”