AN EVESHAM woman had a life size pillar for her erected outside St Paul's Cathedral to mark blood cancer month in September.

Julie Messent, 53, from Watson's Lane, Evesham had it unveiled on September 4 in Paternoster Square, London.

Designer Paul Cocksedge has created an installation that gathers 104 three-dimensional letter-form sculptures forming a typographic forest of names, representing the 104 individuals diagnosed with blood cancer everyday.

Each of the pieces symbolises an individual with blood cancer, sized perfectly to match the individual's height and recreating their name in huge vertically placed letters.

Ms Messent said: "I was diagnosed with Waldenstrom’s Macroglobulinaemia in December 2013.

"This is a rare form of blood cancer.

"At present it is responds well to treatment but not yet curable.

"Initially I was put on ‘watch and wait’, but only after a few months I needed treatment for 6 months.

"I am now back on ‘watch and wait’. This brings with it a variety of emotions, but on the whole I am irresistibly optimistic yet robustly fragile! I now understand how ill I had become without realising it.

"At the beginning of September, I was lucky enough to be chosen by WM to represent one of the 104 people diagnosed with blood cancer a day, and through the Installation in Paternoster Square had my story told."

"With the other 103 people from Anthony Nolan, Bloodwise, CLLSA, Leukaemia Care, MDS UK and Myeloma UK, we stood by our sculptures soaked up the atmosphere, a really positive experience from a very traumatic time of our lives.

"Hopefully, the public will take time look at the sculptures read the stories and make blood cancer visible."

The Installation is open to the public during September.