This time two years ago, ironically during Breast Cancer Awareness Month, my mum was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 48.
She had received a letter from the NHS inviting her to go for her very first routine mammogram.
Public Health England is in the process of extending it to begin from age 47, and trials have already begun in certain areas, which is why my mum got hers early.
Nobody wants to go and have their boobs squashed by a big machine so you sort of think ‘do I really need to go to this?’
Thankfully, she did.
Something showed up on her scan, so they invited her back for a biopsy, which confirmed our worst fear. She had cancer.