Woman's Weekly

Through cancer and BEYOND

‘Cancer made me braver’

‘I want you to remove both my breasts’

Julie Brandram Jones, 62, is a part-time bookkeeper and lives with her husband Charlie, 63, in Herefordshire.

Sinking into a bubble bath, I mused about the twists and turns life could throw at you.

It was August 2014 and I was staying with my parents, to help care for my elderly father after an operation.

Seconds later and still deep in thought, I suddenly felt a chicken-nugget-sized lump in my left breast.

I’d read somewhere that the majority of lumps are benign, so I wasn’t overly worried. And even when

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