WHILE pregnant with her second child, Jenny Boot received some devastating news.
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She had HER2 breast cancer, and needed to start chemotherapy immediately.
"I'll never forget, I was driving on the road when I got the call, they said, 'can you come in?'" Jenny said.
"And I asked, 'is it cancer?' And they said, 'yeah, it is'."
She was diagnosed in November 2010, when she was 33.
It was before her birthday, and her family had just moved to Townsville.
She had first visited the doctor when she was 22 weeks pregnant because she felt a lump.
As she had no family history of breast cancer, the doctor told her it "was nothing".
"I wish I had taken the advice of a friend at my first visit to push for an ultrasound," she said.
As she drove to Townsville, she could "feel the lump growing", so she visited the doctor again.
She had no choice but to have a single mastectomy, where a 6cm tumour was removed.
She was 28 weeks pregnant.
Her son was induced on January 2 so she could start chemo the following week.
"There were practical issues around his healthcare, he was in intensive care for 18 days," Jenny said.
"It was tricky, as we'd just moved ... Some of my friends came from England and Scotland to support me."
"One who came had just had a baby herself."
Jenny completed six lots of chemo every three weeks.
Treatment lasted 18 weeks in total, and her last session was on Easter Monday.
"I had treatment with an air force pilot, and he went through the same stuff as us," she said.
"He had a double mastectomy as well, he was just more comfortable with being bald than we were."
Caring for a newborn while receiving treatment posed its own challenges, as the chemo weakened her immune system.
"Any newborn is hard but I couldn't do a lot of things," she said.
"I had to wear gloves to change his nappy and I'd get my husband to do the poos."
She couldn't breastfeed, so she fed her son using bottles.
"We had no power for four days, so we were heating the bottle over a camp oven," she said. Jenny and her family moved to Bowral in January 2014, where she became an organiser for the annual Mother's Day Classic.
"I was new to town, and because of my history, I'm passionate about it, and it was a chance to meet others in the community," she said.
She hoped people would join in this year to raise money for the National Breast Cancer Foundation, where the money would be used for cancer research.
"My daughter will have to start having checks at 27 now," she said
"It would be really nice if my daughter doesn't have to go through it.
"You'll be putting money there so then you don't have to be affected.
"As a mum of young kids, I'm just asking people to come at 9.30am, we get up at 5am to set up.
"Not only for mums, it's for your sisters and for yourself."
Not everyone has to participate in the walk, they can pay and "have a coffee and relax".
"We want people to bling up in pink and come with a smile on your face," Jenny said.
The Mother's Day Classic will be held Sunday, May 8, starting at 9.30am.
There will be a 3km walk and a 5km run at the Bong Bong Race Track, Kangaloon Road, East Bowral.
On the day registrations can be made from 8.30am to 9.30am.
For more information, visit http://www.mothersdayclassic.com.au/event-info/regional-event-locations/new-south-wales/bowral/
The Mayo Clinic estimates that about 20 per cent of breast cancers are HER2-positive.
Younger women are more likely to be HER2-positive than older women.
HER2-positive breast cancer tends to be more aggressive and to spread more quickly than other cancers.