Guest writer, Sara Liyanage, provides a detailed insight into her experiences of living with cancer and her journey back to work:

‘I am going back to work. It will be one day off eighteen months since I was last in the office. I clearly remember the parting conversation with a couple of colleagues about how I was off to see the breast consultant for my biopsy results that evening. I hadn’t been worried about the biopsy, after all I was only 42 and I ticked all the boxes for minimising any risk of developing cancer. Plus, nothing had shown up on the mammogram that was taken the previous week: the biopsy was of a tiny little lump in my left armpit. But, as I was preparing to leave the office, I began to feel a bit apprehensive: a feeling with which I am now more than familiar because I did (albeit unexpectedly) receive a cancer diagnosis that evening and over the past eighteen months a general feeling of apprehension has hung over me as I have been scanned, tested, prodded, poked and treated for breast cancer’.

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(Sara is the founder of www.tickingoffbreastcancer.com, a website dedicated to helping people through their breast cancer treatment from diagnosis to living life to the full once treatment ends).