Barbara Keeley MP had therapy for breast most cancers months earlier than election

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Barbara Keeley MP had therapy for breast most cancers months earlier than election

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Barbara Keeley mentioned the marketing campaign was “very robust” following her therapy for most cancers

An MP has revealed she was recovering from therapy for breast most cancers throughout the latest normal election marketing campaign.

Barbara Keeley, 67, mentioned she was recognized in April, had surgical procedure in Might and radiotherapy in July.

Talking at a celebration assembly on Thursday, the Labour MP for Worsley and Eccles South pressured the significance of “self-checking” for lumps.

She additionally thanked her colleagues and household for his or her assist and the medical staff at Guys Hospital, London.

“I carried on working by means of the radiotherapy nevertheless it does deliver with it lots of fatigue,” she said on Facebook.

“I need to emphasise repeatedly the significance of self-checking, which is how I how I discovered the lump that proved to be breast most cancers,” she added.

“I am so glad it was caught in time and that I’m now (hopefully) cancer-free.”

Ms Keeley, who has been an MP since 2005, retained the seat in December with a 3,219 majority.



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