A mum who feared she wouldn't live to see her son grow up is now bidding to raise cash to beat the disease which almost killed her.
Janine Edgar, 28, was diagnosed with bladder cancer when she was five months pregnant. Now she's hoping to help fund-raisers break records at the Ipswich Race for Life events.
She recieved the devastating news during a routine 20 week scan on her unborn baby.
She said: "I feared I wouldn’t live to see my son grow up, but now I am full of hope that I have been cured."
Janine, from Hadleigh, Suffolk, had to have her labour induced early as the weight of her unborn baby was pressing on her tumour, causing bleeding.
Her son, Jonty Edgar, now 15 months old, was a healthy 7lb 14oz at birth but his mum was whisked away for urgent cancer treatment when he was only two weeks old. She underwent surgery to remove the tumour, followed by two chemotherapy ‘washes’ into the bladder.
The battling mum decided to take part in the June 8 Chantry Park event after doctors advised her that her treatment appeared to be successful.
“The work of Cancer Research UK is essential for improving treatments and cures – that’s why it is so important that every single woman who walked, jogged and ran alongside me on Sunday makes a huge effort to send in her sponsorship money, no matter how small."
Janine walked the Ipswich Race for Life last year while undergoing treatment and was one of the event’s highest fundraisers, raising £500. This year she was delighted to run the course in 28 minutes – despite being pregnant with her second child.
Cheering Janine on from the sidelines on Sunday was her mother, Juanita Pringle, from Kesgrave in Ipswich. Sadly, Juanita was diagnosed with terminal Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia in January this year.
“It made my mum very proud to see me completing Race for Life, and to see so much passion from the women who committed themselves to helping to beat cancer,” said Janine.
Find out about Race for Life events in your area through our dedicated section which has event coverage, useful links and information, and a training diary from Wendy Hurrell and the Anglia Race for Life particpants.
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