Being diagnosed with breast cancer can come as a huge shock.

Whatever your situation, and however you’re feeling about it, it is important to know that breast cancer has a high survival rate, especially when found and treated early.

6000 pink silhouettes are seen staked into the ground for a breast cancer memorial outside Parliament House in Canberra (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) Source: AAP

Doris Mounsey tells Pamela Rauleder how breast cancer changed her life.