I got breast cancer after mastectomy

KATE Pistilli overcame breast cancer before having children and was devastated when it returned during her second pregnancy.

She said: “At four months pregnant I found a lump during a monthly check. I was in shock and thought

‘How can I have breast cancer again when I have no breasts?’

“But even with a double mastectomy there is no

guarantee there wasn’t even just one cell left behind to misbehave.”

The mum of two, 33, from St Ives, Cornwall, added: “I had two surgeries while pregnant and two weeks after my daughter was born I had radiotherapy every day for a month.

“I felt robbed of my pregnancy experience.

“Speaking to a Mummy’s Star peer support worker over the phone really helped. I was connected with someone who had cancer in pregnancy themselves and knew what I was going through.”