Just six months after giving birth, 29-year-old Welsh teacher Amy Isidoro faced the darkest days of her life when chest pain and a lump led to a devastating diagnosis — triple negative breast cancer, one of the most aggressive forms of the disease.
During the height of COVID, she attended appointments alone, only realizing something was wrong when a nurse asked if anyone was with her. Her biggest fear wasn’t the treatment—it was how her young children would cope seeing her unwell.
Chemotherapy began in August 2020, bringing complications, sepsis scares, and months separated from family due to lockdown rules. She waved to her children through hospital windows and faced pain, worry, and hair loss without loved ones by her side.
In February 2021, a mastectomy revealed clear lymph nodes, followed by more chemo. By September she returned to work, and in October 2021 she was declared cancer-free.
Struggling with anxiety after treatment, Amy rejected medication and instead trained for the 2024 London Marathon, determined to prove “cancer will not win.”
She now urges others to trust their bodies: