Wendy Lodder was diagnosed with advanced thymic carcinoma in October 2016. Cancer of the thymus gland, which is in the chest between the lungs, affects less than ten people a year in the UK. Ms Lodder was referred to the cancer centre at Guy’s Hospital, in London, where she had two major operations and received chemotherapy and immunotherapy treatment. The 52-year-old, an England Golf under-18 East region volunteer manager, died in 2018. It was just three months after a charity golf day at Three Rivers Golf and Country Club which raised £10,000. Friend Sarah Bennett raised a further £10,000 at a second charity golf day in 2019 and is planning a third this September at Colchester Golf Club.