Mum diagnosed with cancer one week after daughter's treatment ends

A young woman has been left devastated to discover her mum has breast cancer, just a week after she successfully completed treatment for the same disease.

Amberley Kent, 24, experienced an "awful" past year after undergoing chemotherapy, surgery and radiotherapy to treat her cancer.

But after completing her treatment, she said she "was quickly brought back to square one" after finding out her mum Cathy had been hit with the disease.  

Amberley was diagnosed June last year with invasive ductal breast cancer, also known as 'no special type’ because the cells cannot be identified as a specific type. 

"I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy, let alone my mum, and I think it is even worse for her because she has seen everything first hand with me. She knows what she is about to go through.

She describes it as the "unluck" of the draw, as it "is something we all just have to go through." 

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Amberley, who works in marketing, said she didn't have any major warning signs to make her think she had breast cancer. 

She said she was constantly ill with cold and flu symptoms but never thought anything of it.

But when she was having a shower, she found a lump in her breast. She thought it was just tissue, but asked her boyfriend of six months at the time to get a second opinion.

She said: "It was hard because I was not expecting anything, and the doctors kept saying to me it was extremely unlikely because of my age. 

"So it was a real shock to the system because I had kind of convinced myself that it was nothing."

"I really did try and keep going but some days I couldn't move.

"I didn't want to stop working or anything, I just wanted to keep going but until you go through, you have no idea what it is going to feel like and how it will bring you down."

Mum Cathy, 52, who looked after her daughter throughout the whole treatment is now currently on her second treatment of chemotherapy. 

"She finds it hard because even when she just wants to make herself a cup of tea she can find it hard to get off the sofa. 

"I’m trying to help Mum through it, but it’s just brutal.

“It is horrible to witness, when I was with her getting the results I just knew it was bad as soon as she walked in from getting her results. 

"I just saw the look on her face and just knew."