A mother of three that has recently been diagnosed with breast cancer spoke of how she was brought to tears during the Worcester Race for Life. 

40-year-old Heather Anderson-Stevens from Worcester was sent for an MRI scan and a biopsy after noticing a persistent pain in her breast in early June.

She was diagnosed with cancer on the same day.

After sharing her diagnosis with her sister and two friends, who all play together on the same netball team, they decided that they were going to run the Race For Life on Mrs Anderson-Stevens' behalf under the team name 'Heather's Boobies'.

From there, two of her children, Alfred, and Archie, alongside her nephew and two of her friend's sons also decided that they wanted to get involved.

And Mrs Anderson-Stevens admitted that she was brought to tears when she saw them all together on the day.

She said: "It was amazing, I was very tearful.

"They tell you at the beginning to take a minute to reflect on why you're there, and I turned around and all of my friends and family were crying. 

"I was just so proud of them all.

"My middle child does not like getting wet, he's really fussy, and he was absolutely drenched, but he was still smiling from start to finish."

See more great pictures from the day here

Mrs Anderson-Stevens had to have a mastectomy in early July to remove her breast, just a month after they'd originally discovered the cancer. 

Doctors found that it had also travelled to her lymph nodes, which resulted in a further surgery to find out how deep the cancer had spread. 

She's since started chemotherapy and is currently gearing up for her second of a total seven rounds, which will then be followed by further radiotherapy treatment. 

"I'm doing ok, I have three kids so it can all get quite tiring," she added.

"The first week was really hard, there's a three-week gap between every session and it seems to be getting a little bit easier."

Given the increased risk that catching Covid-19 could pose to her health, Mrs Anderson-Stevens hasn't left the house since she started her treatment. 

However, she did manage to make it out to Worcester Racecourse to watch her friends and family cross the finish line on Sunday.

"It was the first time I had been out since I started my chemotherapy, so I was very tearful," she said. 

"One of the kids struggled a little bit, but four of them stayed together and ran over the finish line with their arms round each other.

"It was very cute."

In total, they raised a whopping £1610 for Cancer Research UK, more than four times their original target of £400.

And you can still donate to 'Heather's Boobies' to help them further increase that figure by using the following link.