Michaela Strachan reflects on her difficult journey will breast cancer and is now 'drug free'...
January 28, 2020 - 19:25 GMT Francesca Shillcock The brand new series of Winterwatch returns on Tuesday evening and viewers will no doubt will be pleased to see the team back together. Michaela Strachan, Chris Packham, Gillian Burke and Iolo Williams will be showcasing all the nature and wildlife that Northeast Scotland has to offer as they explore the Cairngorms National Park, the UK's largest, for series seven of the much-loved BBC programme.
She continued:"I couldn't get my head around the fact that on Monday morning I'd been apparently healthy, by Tuesday I had cancer, and by Wednesday I was talking about a double mastectomy." The 53-year-old mother-of-three, who also had reconstructive surgery, is now dedicated to encouraging other women to have routine check-ups and mammograms."If I'd put mine off," she said."My story could have been a very different one.
Thankfully, after a challenging few years, Michaela is now cancer and drug free. In 2019, she spoke to iN10 about her journey and how she even came off medication early."I took myself off it because I wanted to start 2019 drug-free," she explained."I think a lot of these figures, like five years, aren't definite and mentally I wanted to go into the year not taking Tamoxifen.
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