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‘Just cut it off’

What good is pretty, if I’m 6ft under?’

This was the only question Tina had for doctors after they laid out her treatment options.

It was May 2014, and the mum of three had just been diagnosed with stage-2 nasal cancer.

‘I was devastated, just terrified,’ she says.

But when it came to surviving, the decision, in the end, was easy.

Tina says, ‘They wanted me to have radiation but the risks were quite profound.

‘There was a

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