A mum whose fear of getting breast cancer prompted her to check daily for lumps for years only to have the disease twice by the time she was 30 is campaigning for kinder treatments after chemotherapy made her so sick she was hospitalised.
Jade Townsend, 32, is “still terrified” the disease will strike again – even after having a double mastectomy – and says seeing her mother go through breast cancer, which she survived, made her positive from a young age that she would follow suit.
