Vale Kristen Florance (20 June 1965 – 3 October 2018)

The death of my sister, Mary, from breast cancer nearly 7 years ago, was the shocking event that opened my eyes to the reality that cancer, in all its many forms, was a heartbreak that many families have to face. Like Mary, many people die from cancer at an age when they should still have many decades of useful life ahead of them.

Since Mary’s passing th…