To all of you who have lost someone special and close to this cruel disease I am truely sorry.

My mother is also a Breast Cancer survivor a year past now coming up two soon, unfortunatley NZ has one of the highest cases of Breast Cancer in the world, and we don't yet know why?

I also lost my Adopted Uncle Joe ( the only uncle I ever knew as a child) to lung cancer over 13 years ago.

I hope not to loose anyone to this awful disease and take heart at all the survivor stories here.

Thank you to everyone for sharing their private stories,some make me want to cry and others give me hope.