Breast Cancer Australia: Sisters diagnosed within six weeks of each other - Daily Mail

Two sisters who were diagnosed with breast cancer within six weeks of each other have revealed how they worked together to overcome the disease.

She immediately saw her doctor and tests later revealed she had lobular breast cancer, a form of hormone-positive breast cancer that begins in the milk glands. .

Aisling, 50,left,  and Margaret, 46, right,  Cunningham were diagnosed with cancer within six weeks of each other in earth-shattering coincidence.

The sisters who are both single mums tackled the disease and treatments together - helping each other with childcare when they could .

Margaret started treatment immediately and urgently warned her family, including her mother and two sisters, to get checked for cancer.

She was diagnosed with a different form of breast cancer known as Invasive ductal carcinoma, the most common type.

The sisters, who are both single mums and live next door to one another, said it was a blessing to be diagnosed just weeks apart. .

'I was diagnosed with avascular necrosis, but I was so relieved it was something else and not cancer,' she said.

In Australia, the overall five-year survival rate for breast cancer in females is 91%.

If the cancer is limited to the breast, 96% of patients will be alive five years after diagnosis; this figure excludes those who die from other diseases.

Most people with breast cancer don't have a family history of the disease.

New lumps, thickening in the breast, changes in shape or size of the breast and changes in the shape of the nipple.

Women and men can be diagnosed with breast cancer.

The sisters are looking forward to their first normal Christmas in two years - one where their kids don't have to miss out on the excitement of the day in any way.

Pain in any area of the breast

The mums are looking forward to their first Christmas without medical-related complications since they were first diagnosed

The sisters said they are inundated with messages from breast cancer survivors who want to support the company and the community they have built