One of the leading campaigners who won NHS funding for Shropshire women in need of the life-saving breast cancer drug Herceptin has died.
Shelagh Jesson, of Broseley, was a founding member of Herceptin 4 Shropshire Now campaign, together with six other women from the county. She died on December 15 after a near three-year cancer battle.
Mrs Jesson would have been 58 on Thursday. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in early 2005 and needed Herceptin to battle the disease.
But at the time it was not available to her on the NHS.
She joined other patients to wage a successful battle to convince Shropshire Primary Care Trust to change its funding policy.
In late 2005 Mrs Jesson found out she was to receive Herceptin and she was due for her last injection in April 2006, but it was then discovered she had bone cancer.
Her daughter Emma said today: “She was always thinking of others…I was lucky to have her as a mum.”
A sad LOSS for Broseley…I Lost my OWN Grandmother to cancer last night….
All our thoughts are with you Emma…God Bless…From the BroseleyOnline Community