‘I didn’t know if I was going to survive’: Bastion’s Jacqueline Archer on navigating cancer in the workplace
Last year, Jacqueline Archer’s life was turned upside down when she was unexpectedly diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer on the precipice of starting her new role as managing director of Bastion Make. This month, for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Archer sat down with Mumbrella’s Kalila Welch to share her story.
It was during those blissful few weeks of serenity between finishing one job and starting another that Jacqueline Archer was first diagnosed with breast cancer. Light-hearted advice from a girlfriend, while on holidays in the sunshine state, had been the ultimate catalyst that lead her to visit the doctors for a checkup. Unconcerned, she had waited two weeks before booking her appointment.
“I went in to check it out, just this casual thing, and that’s when my doctor went ‘you need to go to St Vincent’s right now’,” Archer explains.
