A BREAST cancer survivor from Wirral has organised a special event at her local golf club to raise cash for a charity funding research into the disease.

Members of Bidston Golf Club will wear pink, decorate their carts in pink balloons and play with pink golf balls during the Wear it pink  event tomorrow.

It has been organised by retired headteacher Sheena Drake, who is urging fellow Wirral residents to join her in raising money for Breast Cancer Now’s life-saving breast cancer research, by ditching their everyday colours and wearing something pink.

Sheena knows from personal experience the importance of research into this devastating disease.

In 2011, the 58-year-old felt a thickened area on her right breast. She went for a mammogram which was all clear, which put her mind at ease.

However, 12 months later the thickening had spread to her left breast, and Sheena was diagnosed with HER2+ breast cancer on Christmas Eve 2012.

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Tests revealed Sheena (pictured, above) had four tumours in her breasts, and the cancer had spread to her lymph nodes.

Sheena underwent a double mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, 12 months of Herceptin and now takes a hormone therapy drug called Letrozole.

She now suffers from Lymphoedema as a result of her surgery and the removal of her lymph nodes.

Sheena says she has always been fit and healthy and plays a lot of golf.

She lives her life to the very fullest, and since her recovery decided to say yes to every experience and opportunity which comes her way, which included becoming the captain of her local golf club and trekking the Great Wall of China in aid of Breast Cancer Now.

Sheena said: "When I was diagnosed with breast cancer it was like my life had been thrown up in the air and came down in pieces.

"It's such a horrible disease, and everybody knows somebody who has been through it.

"That's why raising funds for Breast Cancer Now's research is so important - we need to put a stop to breast cancer.

"Anyone can take part in wear it pink, whether you do it at home, work, playing a sport or at school.

"It's such a fun day and taking part is an easy way to raise money for Breast Cancer Now's life-saving research – it doesn't take much planning, and you really don't need to be an expert fundraiser.

"I hope my fellow Wirral residents will join me and wear it pink on Friday!"

To take part in wear it pink this October, visit www.wearitpink.org for further details, fundraising ideas and how to register.