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How one woman's battle for Hope can help support tens of thousands

How one woman's battle for Hope can help support tens of thousands

Scotland’s only breast cancer support centre opens in Edinburgh

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Jun 24, 2025
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Lisa Fleming. Pic: Lisa Fleming.

A breast cancer diagnosis turned Lisa Fleming’s world upside down - and threatened to end it completely. She had secondary breast cancer, which had reached every bone in her body, and she was given 6 months to live.

That was in 2017. “It was hell,” she says, recalling the thought that she would not see her 4-year-old son g…

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