article_snippet: The following week Ms Epsom went to hospital for a biopsy and, five days later, Ms Epsom was told the result.
article_snippet: Ms Epsom was horrifed to be told that had Ms Epsom gone another six to eight weeks without treatment, Ms Epsom would have died.
article_snippet: Two weeks later, in December 2013, Ms Epsom underwent major surgery.
article_snippet: As a result, it was three weeks before Ms Epsom allowed Ms Epsom two younger children to visit Ms Epsom in hospital.
article_snippet: Ms Epsom (pictured before surgery) left hospital a month after Ms Epsom (pictured before surgery) operation, though Ms Epsom (pictured before surgery) still had to have six weeks of radiotherapy, from January to March 2014.
article_snippet: But, finally, in July last year, scans showed Ms Epsom (pictured before surgery) was cancer-free.