Sunbed cancer will kill me in 8 weeks but I’m smiling for kids’ sake
FLICKING through the Center Parcs brochure, Louise Cook happily plans to whisk her three lively kids away. She knows Summer, six, Mason, four, and Chloe, 18 months, will have the time of their lives. But at just 27, Louise faces the heartbreak that the trip will provide some of their last shared memories. Louise has cancer and has been given just eight weeks to live after using sunbeds three times a week for two years. The brave mum says: “I was young and naive and will pay for that with my life. But I refuse to let cancer define our lives while I’m still here. I’ll keep happy for my babies, they make me smile every day.” Now, as Louise prepares for her children to grow up without a mum, she is desperate for Sun readers to be aware of the dangers of sunbeds. Louise, who is married to Martyn Cook, 25, was diagnosed with malignant melanoma when she was nine weeks pregnant with their daughter, Chloe. Just 15 weeks later she was told the cancer was