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A life full of miracles: Jennifer Yeo on how she and her 2 sons survived cancer
Jennifer Yeo started the Viva Foundation for Children with Cancer in 2006 after her son had leukaemia. She tells executive editor Sumiko Tan her own brush with cancer gave her work there added urgency
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When Jennifer Yeo, wife of former minister George Yeo, found out she had a rare and deadly form of nasal cancer in 2017, she had a good cry, then told herself to be “sporting”.
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When lawyer Jennifer Yeo found out in 2017 that she had a rare and deadly form of nasal cancer, she had a good cry, then told herself she had to accept that she might die.
As a staunch Catholic, she had always believed she would one day be called home to a God she loved. For this to happen, she would have to “enter the door of death”, as she puts it.
