Bravery of cancer anguish girl who runs to aid others
A YOUNG woman who runs to aid cancer victims has a special reason to complete the course this year – she has been diagnosed with the disease after doctors gave her the all- clear.
Kerry Hamilton, 34, has run in the all- women Race for Life, to raise money for Cancer Research UK, for the last two years.
Then after a smear test in January, a nurse spotted an abnormality and it was discovered Kerry had a golf ball- sized tumour. She has now had a hysterectomy to save her life.
In her previous routine smear test, Kerry got the all- clear.
But she refuses to be bitter and is fund- raising for her next Race for Life in July.
“Luckily I am a naturally positive person and I just think that there is somebody else going through something much worse than me,” said educational consultant Kerry, of Birmingham.
She first felt ill while working at a lion research centre in South Africa in 2009. A 2011 smear test gave her the all- clear. When she still felt ill last summer, a GP suggested she was hormonal.
Then in January she was diagnosed with soft tissue cancer leiomyosarcoma, which would not show up in a smear test. Her eggs have been collected to give her the chance to one day have a child. To help Kerry, visit: www. justgiving. com/ kerryhamilton4