A lawyer from Cardiff decided to keep running when she was diagnosed with breast cancer and completed a marathon just two months after finishing treatment. Cath Thompson, 43, from Whitchurch, discovered a lump in August 2020 when she scratched an itch and noticed a hard lump underneath her nipple.
After a "terrifying" month waiting for results from a mammogram, ultrasound and biopsies, she was diagnosed with stage one breast cancer and referred for surgery. The situation became worse when, in November 2020, surgeons discovered the lump had become bigger and micro-metastases (small cancer cells) had spread to the surrounding lymph nodes.
Cath was then told she needed radiotherapy. She said: "My life had turned on its head. When I first found out I had cancer I was so scared. I was scared of what my diagnosis meant for me, what it meant for my daughter, Ariane, who was 11 at the time.
