A fit, young woman who was diagnosed with incurable breast cancer that spread to her bones, spine and liver has warned against the lifestyle she believes contributed to the disease. 

Bisma Lalji, 37, was diagnosed with the disease in February 2023 while under a huge amount of stress related to her high-flying job in finance.

While her cancer developed, she was 'pulling all-nighters, running on caffeine and adrenaline, barely stopping to eat, let alone sleep'.

In a recent Instagram clip, she said she now 'knows' this high-pressured lifestyle contributed to her disease.

'Chronic stress is a silent killer. It disrupts your hormones, weakens your immune system, and stops your body from doing what it's designed to do — heal,' she wrote.

'Your body needs sleep for autophagy (aka cellular clean-up), to fight inflammation, to recover. But when you're constantly in fight-or-flight mode? That healing doesn't happen.'

'Add a divorce into the mix, and the weight of my personal and professional life hit me like a ton of bricks.