'My Future Is Now - Not Ne Ext Year or the Year After' ; Bettina von Hase Had a Thriving London Social Life and a Successful Business. Then Breast Cancer Struck and Spread. Here She Tells How She Learned to Live with Her Illness and Why She Isso Determined to Defy the Odds

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ONE year has passed since I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Some mornings, in the transitional state from sleeping to waking, I still cannot believe it happened to me. Up until then my life had been blessed and stressed.

I had grown up in Britain as my father was the German ambassador in the Seventies.

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'My Future Is Now - Not Ne Ext Year or the Year After' ; Bettina von Hase Had a Thriving London Social Life and a Successful Business. Then Breast Cancer Struck and Spread. Here She Tells How She Learned to Live with Her Illness and Why She Isso Determined to Defy the Odds

I loved my English life. London was a very different place to the global boomtown it is today; I was fascinated by its architecture and sheer eccentricity. I read history at Oxford, was a foreign correspondent for Reuters, a television producer for CBS News and then a management consultant working with prominent media and arts clients.

In the late Nineties, I set up my own arts consultancy, Nine AM, and worked all hours of the day and night to make it a success. The art world is international...

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