When Susan Leeming found she had stage three breast cancer at 42, she was relieved she had no children to distress with the devastating news.
But this small crumb of comfort turned out to be a leading cause of her illness.
According to Mirror UK, Susan’s biopsy showed the cancer cells developed because she’d never been a mum.
She was told women who have babies have lower oestrogen levels while hers were abnormally high enough to trigger the disease.
Susan says: