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Claire Rayner (born Claire Berenice Berk to Jewish parents in London on January 22 1931) is a British journalist best-known for her role for many years as an agony aunt. She originally trained as a nurse and was awarded an OBE in 1996 for services to women's issues and to health issues. Rayner is a noted humanist and has served as President of the British Humanist Association. She remains a Vice-President of the British Humanist Association, a Distinguished Supporter of the Humanist Society of Scotland and an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society. She is also a prominent supporter of the British republican movement. She is president of The Patients Association and is the author of a chapter in The Future of the NHS (2006) (ISBN 1-85811-369-5) edited by Dr Michelle Tempest. Her autobiography How Did I Get Here from There? was published in 2003, and revealed details of a childhood marred by physical and mental cruelty at the hands of her parents. The writer Jay Rayner is her son.

On 4 January 2007, she hosted an episode of the BBC 4 radio quiz, "The Personality Test."

She is an Honorary Associate of the UK's National Secular Society.

Breast cancer patient

Rayner was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2002 at the age of 70. She had a simple radical mastectomy and a prophylactic mastectomy but did not require any chemotherapy or radiotherapy because the cancer had not spread to the lymph nodes. She did take tamoxifen until the side-effects became too uncomfortable. She presently has no evidence of the disease.

Rayner has become a breast cancer activist in order to promote the work of the charity Cancer Research UK.

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