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Rebekah Gibbs was just weeks away from giving birth when she first noticed a lump in her breast.

By Jane Elliott, video Neil Bowdler
Health reporters, BBC News

Doctors were reassuring and said it would be benign.

But just months after having baby Gigi and after pushing for a referral, the former Casualty actress was told she had a particularly aggressive cancer.

Now she is celebrating her second year clear of the disease, but admits her life will never be the same again.

“I have just had an all-clear. You don’t get a band waiting for you at the hospital doors, but it is a ‘wow I have done my two years’.

“I won’t get cocky though and I take each day as it comes. I am always a little unsure about the future.”

Rebekah, who played paramedic Nina Farr in the popular soap, said her daughter had been pivotal in her recovery… Continue reading