An NHS nurse who put off starting her dream job after being given a late-stage cancer diagnosis now says she is "stronger than ever" after undergoing intensive treatment.
Tracey van Alphen-Read went from dancing at a music festival to being told she had a grade three tumour in her breast in a matter of weeks – at around the same time she learned she had been offered a role in palliative care. The Mirror reports that the big-hearted community care nurse wanted to switch to a job looking after people in their final days after enduring endless grief during the Covid pandemic.
But her joy at being offered the role she longed for was overshadowed after being told that a lump she had found in her breast in October 2021 was cancerous. It broke her heart to tell the people offering her a job that she had to put it on hold.
