 speaks about her journey with the disease, during Breast Cancer Awareness Month this October. Emma, author of All That Followed , said: 'I'd just turned 39. It was 2010 and I'd given birth to triplets six months earlier. 'There was no history of cancer in my family and having spent the last few years dealing with secondary infertility, IVF and then adjusting to life as a single parent to four, the last thing on my mind was breast cancer. 'Years earlier I'd had a lump investigated but was reassured that it was nothing to worry about. 'I was busy, life was full of distractions, the lump remained unchanged, time ticked by and I gave it less and less thought.' 'In denial' Emma adds: 'I became aware of new changes in my breast in the weeks and months following the birth of the babies.' A lump is the most well-known symptom of breast cancer, but there are in fact half a dozen more. Emma was not aware - but she says she was in 'denial' that something could be wrong. She said: 'The skin on my breast was puckered and my nipple had become inverted but, knowing as little as I did about the other symptoms of breast cancer, it felt reasonable to think that those changes might be due to blocked milk ducts from feeding. "Or post pregnancy fluctuating hormones. Or, even the weight loss from endless adrenaline fuelled days and sleep deprived nights. 'Denial. It's alway){kind=link}
EMMA Campbell says breast cancer was “the last thing on her mind” when she’d just given birth to triplets, aged 39 in 2010.
She put the odd changes she experienced down to hormones or blocked milk ducts from breastfeeding, but she in fact had breast cancer.
Little did the single mum-of-four know that the course of the rest of her life was set to change.
Now 52, the podcastcaster (Open with Emma Campbell) speaks about her journey with the disease, during Breast Cancer Awareness Month this October.
Emma, author of All That Followed, said: “I’d just turned 39. It was 2010 and I’d given birth to triplets six months earlier.