Brave Scots mum who urged government not to ‘forget’ cancer patients loses fight for life months after dream wedding
coronavirus pandemic has lost her fight for life.Karen Henderson put her health worries aside to wed her long-term partner Alistair during a moving ceremony in the couple’s Midlothian garden last July.The 48-year-old was initially diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer and the faulty BRCA1 gene in May 2016.The mum-of-one then developed secondary breast cancer in September 2018 but continued tirelessly raising funds to help others.She teamed up with charity founder Lisa Flemming of Make 2nds Count and recorded a hit video - Sunshine on Dalkeith - which raised more than £18,000.In May last year, she fronted a Breast Cancer now campaign calling for the ‘often forgotten’ needs of patients with incurable breast cancer to be recognised by