My cancer BATTLE

Sarah Beeny charts her breast-cancer journey from diagnosis to remission

- HANNAH DAVIES, NATASHA HOLT, STEVEN PERKINS

When TV presenter and property expert Sarah Beeny was diagnosed with breast cancer last year, it was news that she had been anticipating for much of her life – but that didn’t make it any easier to process.

Beeny lost her mother Ann to breast cancer when she was just 10, and Ann was 39 years old. Because of this, the presenter often doubted she would see her own 40th birthday.

‘I think that’s why I’ve packed so much into my life, because ? I genuinely wasn’t sure I’d live past 39,’ says Beeny, now 51. ‘My mother is someone who died of breast cancer, so I imagined that would be what happened to me.’