They knew it had gone to my brain but realised that wasn't the primary, so it took another month to be diagnosed. It's been a long process to get to this point as they didn't originally know what sort of cancer I had. She said: "I went completely undiagnosed for a long time until it went to my brain and I was getting headaches. "That was going really well and then this happened," she told me over a coffee at Griggs Country Store near her home. She was running online fashion business India & Rar before her diagnosis. Read more: Heartbreaking family drama behind the 'best pasties in Cornwall'Īmber, 41, lives with her partner Nick and sons Aubrey, 9, River 4, and Remy, 2, in Hewas Water, near St Austell. Today and every day 95 of them will lose their lives to lung cancer - 16 of those will be non-smokers. More than 85,000 people in the UK have been diagnosed with the disease. Lung cancer is the UK's biggest cancer killer. It has taken 12 months of horrific lows but also surprising highs to get to the stage where Amber, a lifelong non-smoker, now wants to speak out to bust some myths surrounding the disease and help others.Īmber - who tells me she's part of the 19 per cent of people with stage 4 lung cancer who survive the first year - said: "I hope that by sharing my story I will encourage people to shout louder if they feel something is wrong, to smash through the misconceptions surrounding lung cancer and to prove that you can live a meaningful happy life after a stage 4 diagnosis and that anyone can get it. A year ago, Amber Morrison - a successful businesswoman and mum of three young boys from Cornwall - received the devastating diagnosis that she had stage 4 lung cancer.
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