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Mother who had preventative chemotherapy urges Kate Middleton to ‘stay positive’

Source: Kensington Palace/Supplied

A two-time cancer survivor who had preventative chemotherapy urges Kate Middleton to “stay positive” as she battles the disease.

Terri Grice, 50, felt a sharp pain under her armpit and a ‘tiny pea size lump’ under her right breast in 2011 but brushed off her symptoms.

Fortunately, her late husband Mark made her a GP appointment which led to a breast cancer diagnosis.

The mother-of-three from Chester started the long journey to recovery with an operation to remove the tumour, a lumpectomy, and then a course of “adjuvant chemotherapy” to ensure her body stayed cancer-free.

 (Kensington Palace/Supplied)

Princess Kate revealed her cancer diagnosis to the world on 22It is not known what type of cancer Kate has.

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