My illness left me lifeless

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By the time Lis Van Lynden found herself trekking across the icy tundra of Svalbard – the remote Norwegian archipelago just shy of the North Pole – she had already been through more than most people e

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Docs said I should’ve been dead at 14. Over 30 years later…

A my Dowden’s life changed forever in May 2023 when, aged just 32, she was diagnosed with breast cancer – a discovery made only a day before flying to the Maldives for her honeymoon with husband Benja