{"id":12641,"date":"2026-02-18T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curiousdrive.com\/?p=12641"},"modified":"2026-02-18T21:33:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:33:28","slug":"we-were-diagnosed-with-cancer-on-the-same-day-only-one-of-us-survived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/curiousdrive.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/we-were-diagnosed-with-cancer-on-the-same-day-only-one-of-us-survived\/","title":{"rendered":"We were diagnosed with cancer on the same day \u2014 only one of us survived"},"content":{"rendered":"
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‘It all happened in one day’ (Picture: Stevie Wise \/ Cancer Research UK)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In summer<\/a> 2023, Stevie Wise was given a devastating diagnosis<\/a> \u2014 a suspected cyst in her breast, was actually cancer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But when she called her mum<\/a>, Belinda, there was yet more shocking news. <\/p>\n

The 63-year-old had also gone to the hospital that day, and she had been diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer.<\/p>\n

The pair had received their diagnoses on the same day, within just hours of each other.<\/p>\n

Stevie, 40, said: ‘It all happened in one day back in summer 2023.<\/p>\n

‘I was told that what I thought was a cyst was actually cancer. Then I called my mum and her tests had revealed the full extent of her diagnosis.<\/p>\n

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Stevie and her mum were diagnosed on the same day (Picture: Stevie Wise \/ Cancer Research UK)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

‘I didn’t cry. I just thought, right, what’s the plan?’<\/p>\n

Education consultant\u00a0Stevie\u00a0almost skipped her own hospital appointment to be with her mum.<\/p>\n

Stevie\u00a0said: ‘Mum had been in pain for a long time and kept falling over. But she’d hidden it from everyone.’<\/p>\n

Still, Stevie’s gut instinct told her to go to her own appointment \u2014 a decision that would ultimately save her life.<\/p>\n

Scans revealed two tumours and visible swelling under\u00a0Stevie’s arm.<\/p>\n

Doctors<\/a> confirmed she had grade three breast cancer, which had already spread to her lymph nodes.<\/p>\n

Rather than share the news with her mum, Steve kept it a secret, initially telling Belinda that everything was okay. <\/p>\n

While Stevie says she immediately focused on treatment, her mum struggled to even talk about what was happening.<\/p>\n

‘By the time she was diagnosed, it was too advanced,’ says Stevie.<\/p>\n

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She underwent gruelling treatment at the same time as her mum (Picture: Stevie Wise \/ Cancer Research UK)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

‘When she didn’t respond to treatment, we all knew she was dying, but she wouldn’t talk about it. She was terrified.’<\/p>\n

The family underwent a brutal year.<\/p>\n

Stevie\u00a0endured a mastectomy, reconstruction, chemotherapy and radiotherapy while Belinda’s condition continued to worsen.<\/p>\n

Stevie\u00a0said: ‘It was a really awful and stressful time. My surgery wounds kept opening, and my mum was really poorly.’<\/p>\n

While the pair wanted to be there for each other, and help with each others’ care, they were sadly kept apart as they received treatment at different hospitals. <\/p>\n

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