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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Eleanor Fleming

Mother diagnosed with stage three cancer after breast ‘changed shape overnight’

PA Real Life

A publisher who was diagnosed with breast cancer on her 15th wedding anniversary and “nearly died” after getting sepsis during chemotherapy said hope and the support from her family and friends kept her going.

Angela Butterworth, 42, said “it was more about surviving than anything else”, but there were days when she questioned whether she had a future, as she was at “death’s door” and felt “absolutely battered” from treatment.

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