A young grandma whose “menopausal” abdominal pains turned out to be a rare cancer has defied doctors’ expectations that she would die before the end of 2021 and is now living her action-packed “best life”. Eve Lauder, 47, a police officer, who lives in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, was shocked to discover she had advanced goblet cell carcinoma (GCC), which according to rarediseases.org affects just one in every two million people, in December 2020.
Given just six to 12 months to live, Eve, who is single and is mum to Tiah, 23, and grandma to Obie, who is two and a half, vowed to beat the odds and made a list of things she wanted to do and see. She has gone on to raise more than £30,000 for charity, has packed in 12 holidays and founded an annual Goblet Cell Charity Ball.
And during 2022 alone – when she was not expected to still be here – she has also carried the Queen’s baton at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham and partied at Glastonbury while on chemo.
