Erin Kennedy: Paralympic champion says 'early detection is key' after getting cancer all-clear

Erin Kennedy, acold left, says it has been an "emotional week"

Paralympic champion Erin Kennedy said "early detection is key" and stressed the value of "knowing your normal" pursuing a bosom crab diagnosis past May.

The British cox, who has present been fixed the all-clear, is acceptable to instrumentality to grooming connected the h2o connected Monday.

"It's been astonishing and a truly affectional week," she said.

"I'm inactive getting usage to the information I'm all-clear."

Speaking to BBC Breakfast, the satellite and European champion added: "A batch tin hap successful a year. I was diagnosed connected 25 May and I'm present successful mid-March with an all-clear.

"I deliberation the biggest happening I could perchance accidental is that aboriginal detection is truly cardinal and it truly does prevention lives.

"I was truly proactive astir checking myself and knowing what my mean was and really recovered a lump connected a grooming camp. I got it checked truly rapidly and arsenic a effect I was capable to get it treated truly quickly.

"The benignant of bosom crab that I had - the triple antagonistic - tin really beryllium 1 of the hardest but due to the fact that I recovered it truthful early, it has been truthful successful."

Kennedy says she is doing "really well" pursuing her surgery.

"The betterment from the mastectomy was really truly positive," she added. "I did a batch of prehab and fundamentally approached my country similar an athlete.

"I truly focused connected workout and being arsenic acceptable arsenic I perchance could beryllium going into the country truthful that my betterment connected the different broadside would be, essentially, arsenic bully arsenic it perchance could be."

European Championships 'a immense goal'

Kennedy continued to vie aft her diagnosis, winning gold astatine the European Championships successful August.

That triumph was the past clip Kennedy has been successful the boat.

With the 2023 European Championships the adjacent target, she said: "It's really a spot affectional for me. I'm trialling for that astatine the infinitesimal and should find retired if I get the spot aboriginal successful May.

"It happens successful the extremity of May and what's intelligence astir it is that the archetypal time of the championships is simply a twelvemonth to the time that I got diagnosed.

"So for maine that's specified a immense extremity to beryllium moving towards due to the fact that if I could get determination and get that seat, I'll fundamentally beryllium backmost doing my archetypal time of planetary contention precisely 1 twelvemonth to the time that I got diagnosed with cancer."