Siti Hasmah – a breast cancer survivor

For a good cause: Dr Siti Hasmah launching the Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign for the Kuala Lumpur-level at Hospital Kuala Lumpur. Looking on is HKL director Dr Heric Corray (second from left). — Bernama

KUALA LUMPUR: Couples who have been married for several decades have few secrets between them, if at all.

However, Tun Dr Siti Hasmah Mohd Ali still chose to wait for a few days before telling her husband Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad that she had a lump in her breast.