Of all the terrible things a single mother has endured since discovering a malignant tumour in her breast, one of the worst was how to explain to her young daughter that she had cancer. Following her diagnosis in May 2014, 42-year-old City worker Ebba worried most about how six-year-old Lene would take the news. Her greatest fear was that Lene would be left without a mother at a young age, just like her own mother had been. Ebba's grandmother had died of liver cancer when Ebba's mother was only 10. Ebba is proud of how daughter Lene, six, has dealt with her breast cancer diagnosis42-year-old City worker Ebba found lump in her breast in 2014Test confirmed she had cancerShe was terrified daughter, Lene, six, would lose her motherWorried about how to tell her but was was amazed by how Lene coped
Mother and daughter pictured after one of _'s chemo sessions when she started to lose her hair. _ tried to make her hairloss fun for her daughter so it was less traumatic for them both. _ wearing a scarf, left, and wig, right, her daughter helped her choose following her chemo.