“In six months, I’ve gone from being told my treatment was palliative to being told I’m now in remission,” she said. “My fight isn’t over but I’m giving it everything I’ve got. I feel amazing, I feel alive. There’s nothing like a cancer diagnosis to make you sit up and listen to your body.”

“My hair was long before chemo, so I let my daughter who was 6 at the time cut it into a bob. That gave us all a few laughs. But when I did eventually go bald, she found it hard because I no longer ‘looked like mummy.’“Like other types of cancer, ovarian cancer doesn’t just affect the person going through it, but the people around them”