Beth Doggett's cancer experience | June 30, 2024 | Illawarra Mercury - video Dailymotion

Beth Doggett lives in Primbee with her husband Rowan and dog Frank.  She's a cancer survivor of 13 years' standing.  Video by Sylvia Liber

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00:00I had three months left to live.

00:03I'm a brain cancer survivor who's still here

00:05and I think that's really amazing to talk about more,

00:11to get out there more.

00:13My name's Beth and I was 19 when I was first diagnosed with astrocytoma.

00:33It's a subtype of a glioma which is the most commonly diagnosed form of brain cancer.

00:40At the time, I was told it meant that I had three months left to live

00:45and I was told that it would most likely be in hospital.

00:48At 19, I was at the point in my life where I was about to go on an overseas trip

00:54to Madrid, France.

00:56I was meant to be going overseas and really living my life, you know?

01:02I was doing things that were exciting me.

01:04There's nothing out there that is talking you through the positivity

01:09that comes with a brain cancer diagnosis.

01:12There is so much advocacy, peer support.

01:15There's your voice.

01:17My degree in social work and also my diagnosis,

01:23which came about really around the same time,

01:27has led me full circle back to where I am now

01:30and why I'm so passionate about advocacy.

01:33When Rowan came into my life, he really embraced me having brain cancer.

01:39He never was overwhelmed by the reality of what I was facing.

01:46And in the five years that I've known him,

01:48he's meant so much to every single part of my life

01:52that I really didn't think that I was going to look forward to.

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