MORE than 100 breast cancer patients literally took the fight to cancer at a fundraising night.

Organised by charitable project Aurora, the young women came together to show their strength against the illness.

And the so-called 'fight-back' at Old Bank raised £500 through donations and sales of bags and T-shirts.

Ellie Chudleigh helped organise it. She was diagnosed 18 months ago and found that Aurora – which brings young women with breast cancer together to give emotional and practical support – helped her tremendously.

The 50-year-old, who is now the press officer for the charity, she said: “The girls fight-back event was fantastic, we had a brilliant turnout.

“It’s about giving them the choice to be able to fight back because they want to, rather than being forced by a horrendous disease.

“You need to talk to other people who are going through the same situation as you so that they can identify with you.”

Ellie added: “You can’t hide from cancer.

“There is always a moment where you don’t know what’s coming next and you’re left feeling alone.

"This project will help you combat this in so many ways.”

The charity was founded in 2015 in Swindon by one of the few female breast surgeons in the country, Anushka Chaudhry, and specialist nurse Charlayne Harding.

It aims to provide complementary therapies, nutritional advice, some much-needed pampering and regular group sessions where young women talk through how cancer is affecting every part of their lives from family, work and friends to finances, fitness and fertility.

And it provides women with an instant group of friends who know the experience.

The campaign has already raised £2,000, which will go towards funding a seminar in February, bringing together recently-diagnosed patients with people who have experienced the illness a year or more on.