We need to talk more about the challenges of post-treatment life: the weakness, the loneliness, the weight gain, the anxiety

Cathy Kelly: “[The Princess of Wales] opened up about something many of us are afraid to talk about.” Photo: Steve Humphreys

Surviving cancer is like watching fireworks explode brilliantly in the sky. You’ve made it. You’ve done your time in the chemo chair, lain under the arc of the radiation machine, come through random A&E visits for fast-moving immune system illnesses.

You are finally out the other side of a terrifying diagnosis, one that nobody ever wants to be given. You will be there for your children, for your family.