“Unfortunately, you have cancer,” Brett Harman recalls being told over the phone.

He was 26 when he received the diagnosis: acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, an aggressive cancer which needed immediate treatment.

“It was one of those moments where, as you have probably seen in movies, the camera pans out from a character and everything becomes big and echoey. It’s as if you are not in the room anymore. They said: ‘We need you in Nottingham hospital today.’

“I remember hanging up the phone. I cried, hugged my family, and I walked out into the garden and looked up at the sky. I don’t know why. I looked up at the sky, and I thought: ‘This could be the end.’”

Brett went through chemotherapy and further treatment for three years. He was cared for beautifully by his partner Hannah, who was tr

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