Last year, actress Sally Dynevor, who plays Sally Webster in Coronation Street, was told her character would be diagnosed with breast cancer.

Just as she was preparing the first scenes of the storyline, she found a lump and was soon diagnosed herself with breast cancer.

Here, for the BBC video series Cause Celeb, she describes how Coronation Street literally saved her life.

"I'm so glad that story was given to me because there's absolutely no way I would have had that tiny little lump checked out."