FORT SMITH – A terminally ill cancer patient has been given the all-clear after becoming the first woman in Wales to be given a pioneering treatment.
Helen Wynne Hughes, 32, was given CAR-T treatment that uses the body’s own cells to fight cancer.
The mother-of-three, from Denbighshire, had the therapy earlier this year after other treatments failed.
“When the doctor said it was clear… we were in tears. Finally, there was no cancer at all,” she said.
Whatever Covid restrictions may be in place this Christmas, it is set to be special for the Hughes family.
It is a world away from a year ago when Helen was making memory boxes for her three young children – Aled, four, Tomos, two, and 19-month-old Beca.
“I had to tell them ‘perhaps it is mummy’s last Christmas’,” she recalled.
“They are so small, it was very hard. Making memory boxes, looking back thinking I might not get to do things with them again.”