MP who battled cancer to climb Kilimanjaro
Following her diagnosis, Tracey Crouch urged her Twitter followings to "check your bits and bobbins"Former sports minister Tracey Crouch is to climb Mount Kilimanjaro to help raise funds for a breast cancer charity - two years after she ended her last radiotherapy treatment for the disease.
Ms Crouch told BBC Radio Kent she was really excited about climbing Africa's highest mountain in July but said it would be "an enormous challenge". Breast Cancer Kent hope the money raised will allow it to buy a new 'faxitron' radiography system, which speeds up diagnosis times by processing biopsies at a faster rate.At 5,895 meters, many people who attempt to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, in Tanzania, suffer with altitude sickness
"This is significantly slowing down how fast they can process the tissue, which means patients are waiting longer for their results," she said.
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