A REDDITCH mum living with incurable cancer has vowed to turn every moment with her six-year-old daughter into a special memory for the future.
Rock-climbing enthusiast Rebecca Davis, who has never smoked, was devastated when she was diagnosed with lung cancer at the age of 34.
She is now battling against the clock to make special memories with her six-year-old daughter Alexa, so that her child will always remember her.
Becky has decided to share her heart-breaking story as Cancer Research UK launches a new campaign to help save more lives.
She is backing the charity’s latest campaign film which features the sobering statistic: “One in two of us will get cancer in our lifetime. All of us can support the research that will beat it.”
The 35-year-old, who is furloughed from her job as an office administrator in Redditch, was diagnosed in August last year with non small cell lung cancer after developing a persistent cough that wouldn’t go away.
Initially thought to have pneumonia, she was eventually found to have a tumour in her right lung that had already spread to her left lung and lymph nodes.
She was then given the devastating news it was inoperable, but that treatment could prolong her life.
Becky said: “I have been very unlucky. To get lung cancer when you don’t even smoke is very hard.
“My little girl Lexi is going to lose her mum, and that is heart-breaking.
“But you can either give up and stay in bed, or you can get up and make the most of it. I’m doing my utmost to make as many happy memories with my daughter as I can. I want her to remember me.”
Becky is desperate to get across the importance of Cancer Research UK’s work as she believes it is buying her precious time.
Despite being ill, Becky did her own Race for Life at Home last year with friends in Birmingham’s Cannon Hill Park raising money for Cancer Research UK. She is urging others to also get fundraising.
Cancer Research UK spokesperson Jane Redman said: “We are so grateful to Becky for her support.
“This past year proves, more than any other, the value of research and what can be achieved together.
“So, whether they give £2 a month, sign up to Race for Life, volunteer at our shops or pledge to leave a gift in their Will – with the help of people in the West Midlands we believe that together we will beat cancer.”
Find out more at cruk.org.
