Soldier, 39, is diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer after finding a lump while serving in Afghanistan
Jane Grant noticed a throbbing pain in her breast in December 2011
She then examined her breast and found a 'significant' lump
She spoke to her base's doctor and was flown to Camp Bastion
Had an agonising three day wait before she could be flown home
Was diagnosed with aggressive triple negative breast cancer
Had surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital and has now been cancer-free for a year
In June this year she married her fiancé, Tony, who is also in the army
By EMMA INNES
PUBLISHED:19 October 2013
A soldier has spoken of her relief at still being alive after developing breast cancer while serving in Afghanistan. Major Jane Grant, 39, had to be flown back to the UK after she found a painful lump in her left breast.
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| Jane was serving in Afghanistan when she noticed the lump in her breast. She visited the doctor on her base in Lashkar Gah and was immediately flown to hospital at Camp Bastion |
Jane, from Camberley in Surrey, told MailOnline: ‘I am so lucky to be here that I am just determined to keep living.
‘Life is very precious to me now and I just take every day as it comes.’
Jane, who got engaged just months before her diagnosis, says that when she was in hospital she sat and looked at her engagement ring and realised that she had to survive because the thought of leaving her fiancé, Tony, was unbearable.
Jane, who has been in the army since 1997, first realised something was wrong when she developed a throbbing pain in her left breast in December 2011.
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| Jane Grant (pictured with her husband, Tony, on their wedding day in June), 39, was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer after finding a painful lump in her left breast |
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