TV presenter Matthew Wright becomes patron of Telford cancer survivor's charity

Helen Bufton is a trustee for Lynch Syndrome UK, which helps to spread awareness of a genetic cancer mutation.

The 46-year-old asked Matthew, who presents Channel 5's The Wright Stuff, to become a patron and he agreed to be involved.

The presenter's family is a sufferer of Lynch Syndrome, carrying the gene that can cause cancer. He has undergone tests and received the all-clear.

Matthew aid: "I'm very interested in helping the group in any way I can. It's a cause that's close to my heart and I want to help Helen keep up the good fight."

Helen, her mother, brother, sister and daughter have all been diagnosed with the cancer gene, and herself, her brother and mother have all been diagnosed with cancer and had various treatments in the last 18 months.

She hopes to appear on the Wright Stuff in the future to further spread awareness, and continues to strive to help others.

The late Stephen Sutton, who raised millions for Teenage Cancer Trust charity, also had this particular gene.

Helen, of Gibbons Road, Trench, said: "If people had spread awareness 10 years ago, then maybe we wouldn't be in this position.

"The cancers could have been caught earlier and perhaps we wouldn't have had to go through chemotherapy.

"Prevention is better than cure; knowledge is power."

Lynch Syndrome is a hereditary disorder caused by a mutation in a mismatch repair gene causing individuals to have a much higher chance of developing numerous cancers, most frequently bowel and endometrial cancers. The highest cancer risk is bowel cancer, of which Lynch Syndrome sufferers have around an 80 per cent chance of developing, and at a much younger age.