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Grace Walsh

'The system is broken' - Coronation Street's Victoria Ekanoye opens up about her struggle with breast cancer

Victoria Ekanoye .

If you're a fan of Coronation Street, you'll recognise Victoria Ekanoye as Angie Appleton. Recently, however, the actress has turned her hand to documentary filmmaking as an anchor and executive producer of Shades of Survival, a film highlighting the lasting unfair differences in breast cancer outcomes for Black women.

On the day she went to Parliament to request changes in approaches to breast cancer in the UK, Victoria spoke to Christine Lampard on Lorraine about her own experience with breast cancer symptoms and the problems Black women face getting diagnosed.

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