As part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month our Publishing team got together this week with staff and volunteers from Wikipedia to learn about how we can help improve breast cancer content on the free collaborative internet encyclopedia.
‘Goodbye’ was conceived after the death of three friends, all of whom were diagnosed with breast cancer in their thirties.
Deborah- who is credited at the end of the drama- and I had been working on an idea she’d had for a book while she was ill. She wanted to write about her experience of having cancer, but in a funny way. We’d meet round at our houses, have a gossip and do a bit of work.
Mum Frances Dean from Surrey was diagnosed with secondary breast cancer in 2009 when her twin boys were just one and a decade after she was first diagnosed with the disease.
It was a frightening time for Frances now 48 and she leant on Breast Cancer Care for support.