Mum-of-three Tracey is on a mission to help improve conversations about cancer after being treated for womb cancer
The HR officer – who has recently finished treatment for womb cancer - went through the menopause at age 47 when her periods stopped.
“It saved my life 100% having that little bit of knowledge to know that things weren’t right and to go to my GP. In hindsight, I wish I’d gone a bit sooner as I’d had some lighter bleeding in July.” Tracey, who is a mum of three teenagers aged 19, 16 and 14, was treated with a radical hysterectomy to remove her ovaries, womb, cervix, the lymph nodes around her groin and the top of her vagina, followed by six months of chemotherapy.
Tracey now volunteers as a Cancer Voices representative with the Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance – part of the NHS – where she works with staff and other patients to share her experience of womb cancer and life after cancer. She also wants to encourage more women to seek help early and know the signs of womb cancer.
“I also think as a surviving cancer patient that everyone assumes you are OK once your active treatment finishes. Everyone is different, but for me, during my treatment I worked, and I continued weight-lifting, but people see you’ve lost your hair and ask if you are OK.
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