Grandma Carol Foster stages charity event after beating cancer

Jul 15 2010 Huddersfield Daily Examiner

A GRANDMOTHER who survived breast cancer has organised a fundraiser to help other sufferers beat the disease.

Carol Foster, 65, decided to stage this weekend’s event at Colne Valley Leisure Centre in Slaithwaite after receiving life-saving treatment earlier this year.

Carol, from Scapegoat Hill, was diagnosed with breast cancer in April this year.

She regularly checked her breasts, but it was not until she attended a routine mammogram that a lump was found by her GP.

Carol said: “I had gone for the check up, which I always attend every three years, but this time I was told to go back as my doctor had found something in my right breast.

“I was sent for more tests at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary. I had some biopsies taken and the doctor confirmed that I had breast cancer.

“The lump was about an inch-and-a-half in size and right at the front of my breast but in a place where I had not been able to feel it myself.”

Just days after being given the terrible news Carol, who with her partner Brian Plant has six grandchildren, was scheduled in for surgery at Calderdale Royal Hospital in Halifax.

She said: “My family were all worried about me, but I’m a very positive person and just thought right let’s get this cancer out and dealt with.

“I went in for surgery very quickly and I asked for my whole breast to be removed rather than have a lumpectomy.