It's a miserable business, having cancer. I can remember those years clearly, and they were dreadful. I had no family history of cancer, but I knew what it was when I found the lump in my breast ...

Six months after her husband's death, there are still days when Shelagh Milligan is frozen with grief. Wandering into her kitchen she will think, 'What shall I do?', then as she drifts back into ...