The family has urged all UK political parties to commit to a cancer strategy.
Dame Deborah James’s father has said his daughter would tell him to “knock some heads together” as her family urged all UK political parties to commit to a long-term cancer strategy.
Her family have now written an open letter urging all UK political parties to commit to a strategy “to give more people affected by cancer more time with the people they love”. The manifesto calls for the Government to publish a long-term cancer strategy within one year of the general election, to “drive earlier diagnosis and reduce inequalities in access to treatment and care”.
“We’re talking about our eldest child, which brings back many painful memories, but also many happy memories. And the thing is, we’re quite fortunate, Deborah might have died, but she lives in so many people’s thoughts and ideas, and we’re allowed to talk about it and share her. So I think we do get a benefit from it, as well as other people.”
“It was so sad that her diagnosis was really towards the end of stage three when we found out about it.“Sadly, stage three and four, that’s down to one out of 10 to live for five years.”In the letter, Dame Deborah’s family described the You, Me And The Big C podcast host as having “smashed stigmas around cancer” as well as being a “passionate advocate of the importance of early diagnosis”.
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