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IT WAS SUCH A SHOCK

SHE thought she was doing everything right. She exercised a lot – she’s a running fanatic – she took her vitamins religiously, ate healthily, didn’t smoke and drank moderately.

So when she felt a lump in her breast she wasn’t that concerned. She was breastfeeding her baby son, Cruz, so thought it was just a blocked milk duct.

How wrong she was.

The blocked duct turned out to be breast cancer and Candice Kriel (32) is now fighting the disease tooth and nail – a battle made all the harder and lonelier by the fact the world is in the

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