'I was given terminal diagnosis nine years ago but I won't stop fighting'

A woman who was first diagnosed with cancer in 2008 at the age of 37 fought it off but was told nine years ago that the disease was back - and it is terminal. Elen Hughes, 54, says that far worse than the diagnoses and the treatments is the feeling of isolation and loneliness - and the fear of leaving her family behind.

Elen, who is married with three children, was first diagnosed with primary invasive lobular breast cancer in 2008 at the age of 37. She found a lump in her breast and having trained as a nurse, she was aware of what it could mean. Her mum had been diagnosed with breast cancer in 2001 when she was 59.

Elen, from Anglesey, was devastated at her diagnosis. Her youngest child was just about to turn two

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