My wife died of cancer – I’ll never stop fighting for change

Susan died last year – but I’ll never stop fighting for her (Picture: Tristan Loraine)

‘We need to see Susan as soon as possible.’ 

Those were the words from a doctor that changed my life. 

It was the summer of 2013, my wife Susan had recently been to see our GP because she had a small mark on her left breast, but with no lump and no pain. 

But in the previous few months it had become slightly redder. Although she’d been given a mammogram and ultrasound which were clear, the oncologist had arranged for her to have a biopsy and an MRI scan. 

I was shocked, but managed to get my words together on the phone, ‘Does Susan have cancer?’ 

‘I’m really sorry, but she does,’ he r...