A TALENTED singer has fulfilled her dreams by releasing an album despite being diagnosed with breast cancer.

Christell O’Shea has already made £100 for charity from sales of her new album The First Step... Cure, which was released at the end of December – and she is hoping to raise much more in the new year.

Miss O’Shea, of Hawkins Close, Dines Green, Worcester. decided to record her songs while she was sick, after a friend bought her time to record two songs at a Worcester recording studio.

“I had got so many presents when I came out of hospital after having the operation to remove the lump on my breast,” she said.

“It was a friend who said he would pay for me to have two songs recorded as he knew how much I love to sing. With the help of some other people and extra funding, I was then able to record a whole album.”

The 36-year-old had to take time off her job as a home carer in August when she noticed a lump and doctors diagnosed her with breast cancer.

Following an operation to remove the cancer, she now is waiting to start three months of chemotherapy.

Miss O’Shea said: “I needed to do something to keep my mind off it. I have also auditioned to be on Britain’s Got Talent and am waiting to find out if I got through. If I do it will just make my year.”

But she urged women in their 20s and 30s to regularly check for any unusual lumps on their breast.

She said: “My mum Christine had breast cancer six years ago. She is fighting fit now but that made me check myself regularly. I got home from work one day and found a lump so went straight to the doctors. You don’t think it will affect you, especially at a young age, but this shows it can.”

For more details or to buy the album visit christelloshea.

com or visit She hair salon in Lowesmoor. The album costs £7.99 and £1 from the sale of each will be donated to a breast cancer charity.