‘The Big C’– cancer. The very word strikes fear into our hearts and souls and a shiver up our spines. We all know someone who has come into contact with this terrible disease. Perhaps you or someone in your family has been directly affected by it. It can strike any one of us and does not discriminate against class, creed or colour.

Yet many people have fought and beaten cancer. Are you one of those people? Have you come through the other side? Would you like to help others by sharing your story? I am planning to publish a book of personal testimonies of how people have bravely fought cancer and more importantly what they believe helped them to beat it, how they found the strength to do so.

Was it their families, their faith or medical science that pulled them through? Was it all three? What advice would they give to others going through the same frightening experience?

Please submit your story in the strictest of confidence to yourcancerstory@gmail.com or write to Audrey Healy, 3 Canal Close, Longford, Co. Longford. Ireland. Your name will not be published should you wish to remain anonymous.