Sally Crossing
founder of the Breast Cancer Action Group
Sally Crossing (1946–2016) was a consumer health advocate and founder of the Breast Cancer Action Group. She was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 1995.
Early life
Sally Crossing (Fletcher) was born in Melbourne in 1946, and grew up in Melbourne, then England, and from age 8 lived in Sydney. She attended North Sydney Girls High School and Abbotsleigh. She studied economics at the University of Sydney. Her paid career was in banking and government both in Australia and overseas.
She married Peter Crossing and had two children.
Cancer experience
In 1995, at the age of 49, Crossing was diagnosed with early breast cancer and was treated with surgery and radiotherapy. She was again diagnosed with cancer in 2004/2005, and this time it was metastatic. She had a mastectomy and liver surgery.
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