Beating my Chest: My sister & I were diagnosed with cancer just one hour apart

Libby-Jane Charleston
7 min readDec 20, 2020
Journalist and author Libby-Jane Charleston

If ever there was a ‘truth is stranger than fiction’ tale to tell then I’m about to tell you a big one: my sister and I were both diagnosed with breast cancer on the same day.

In different states, just one hour apart.

Although with me in Sydney, Australia and my sister in Perth, Western Australia, we have…

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Libby-Jane Charleston

Journalist, ex-ABC TV, HuffPost AU Assoc Editor, ABC TV, author, poet, mother of 3 boys, cancer Survivor, history lover