'I have a 97 per cent chance of getting cancer – so I'm living life like there's no tomorrow'
After losing half my family to cancer, a fate which I likely share, I have no time to waste worrying
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After losing half my family to cancer, a fate which I likely share, I have no time to waste worrying
My dad died of cancer, then my brother, and there’s a high chance I’ll get it too. It’s taught me to live my life in full colour, says comedian and actor Michelle Brasier
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And Daniel Sloss takes People's Choice Geraldine Hickey has won the top prize at the the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. The comic scooped the prize for most outstanding show for What A Surprise, which told how she had found happiness in life at 40 with a job and partner she loved. It received a slew of glowing reports including five stars from Melbourne newspaper The Age and four from Chortle. Accepting Hickey award she said it took her ‘many, many years,’ to get where she was, adding that she would dedicated the accoade to ‘anyone who’s in the middle of their career an...