'Doctors told me I had months to live. One invitation changed everything'

When Jasmin David received the devastating news that her breast cancer had returned, the prognosis wasn't good.

Two years after her initial diagnosis and treatment at the Christie Hospital, this time, she was told the cancer had spread to her lungs, lymph nodes and chest bone.

The mum-of-two, from Fallowfield, was told she had less than a year to live, meaning she'd miss out on watching her two children grow up. It was a heartbreaking blow.

But then she received an invitation, offering her the chance to take part in a clinical trial at the National Institute for Health and Care Research Manchester Clinical Research Facility.

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Jasmin accepted and took part in the clinical trial. It was a decision that saved her life, and now - she is living cancer-free.

"If I hadn't gone to that trial at the Christie Hospital, I wouldn't be here today," she told the PA news agency. "I have two children and now I get to be here for them as they grow up.

"Research gave me a second chance of life and now I'm relishing every second of it."

Jasmin's incredible story comes amid a national plea for more women from black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds to participate in cancer trials.

Experts have warned that people from these communities have been particularly under-represented in previous studies. This is despite the fact that research has found that black women are more likely to die from breast cancer than their white peers.

They are also more likely to develop more aggressive cancer and be diagnosed when their cancer is at a more advanced stage.

The NHS Race and Health Observatory have now launched a new campaign alongside