16-05-2025
My daughter was so desperate to be a mum at 26 that she delayed life-saving cancer treatment. The chemo went well and we were optimistic - until she got these strange symptoms and was given just weeks to live
Sammy-Jo Brandon was so desperate to be a mother that she delayed life-saving cancer treatment, which could have left her infertile, to undergo the first stage of IVF. It's a decision that may have cost Sammy-Jo her life.
Her heartbroken mother Kim, 64, a retired office worker from Hornchurch, Essex, here reveals the despair she and husband Matthew, 63, a retired toolmaker, felt at their daughter's choice and the steps they have taken since to use their grief to help others through
