IN JUST 15 years, three sisters and their mum have banded together and with the community’s support, raised more than $33,000 in the fight against the disease that devastated their family.

Karen Stockdale, Sue Richardson, Ann Bull and their mother, Joyce Cox, refused to let the disease win when, just as she finished breast feeding her third child, their little sister and daughter, Dorothy Pitman, discovered the lump in her breast which, eight years later, would claim her life.