A major cancer research project that will look for early signs of breast cancer in young women has been established in memory of singer Sarah Harding.
The Girls Aloud singer died from the disease aged just 39 in 2021 and one of her final wishes was to find new ways of spotting breast cancer in the earlier stages, when it is more treatable.
The new Breast Cancer Risk Assessment in Young Women (Bcan-Ray) project will become one of the first in the world to identify which women are at risk of getting the disease in their 30s. More than 2,000 women aged 39 and under are diagnosed with breast cancer in the UK each year.
