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Bristol Post
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Kiera Jessica Marchant

Woman with stage four cancer launches booming business from garden shed

A Bristol woman who has been living with stage four ovarian cancer for the past six years has launched a successful business with her husband from her garden shed.

Roberta Henderson, 54, was first diagnosed with stage four ovarian cancer in 2016, aged just 48, at this time only one per cent of women with the same diagnosis lived for five years or more.

But Roberta has not only defied the odds but surpassed them and now turned her hobby into a money-making business which has allowed her to quit her job.

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