Two years after finishing her final radiotherapy treatment for the disease, the former sports minister Tracey Crouch will climb Mount Kilimanjaro to raise money for a breast cancer charity.
The Chatham and Aylesford Conservative MP wants to raise $100,000 to buy equipment that could save lives for Breast Cancer Kent.
In July, Ms. Crouch plans to climb the highest mountain in Africa, but she acknowledged that it will be "an enormous challenge.".
The 47-year-old stated that one of the things cancer did to her was to stop putting off things she wanted to do.
Ms Crouch completed treatment for breast cancer in February 2021, and said she wanted to give something back to the charity that supported her.
Breast Cancer Kent hopes the money raised will enable it to purchase a new 'faxitron' radiography system, which shortens diagnosis times by processing biopsies more quickly.
At 5,895 meters, many people who attempt to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, in Tanzania, suffer with altitude sickness.
On her fundraising page, Ms Crouch said Maidstone Hospital provided pathology services to a large part of Kent and was reliant on using imaging machines in other departments.
Patients must wait longer for their results because of the significantly slower rate of tissue processing caused by this, according to the expert.
Ms. Crouch claimed that the group of climbers she would be joining to ascend the mountain would be pushing themselves. Some climbers, she claimed, had never camped before even though she had "spent a night in a tent.".
Ms. Crouch acknowledged that she was "a pretty wild child" and that she was looking forward to viewing the breathtaking night sky on Kilimanjaro.