A cancer nurse was overwhelmed with kindness when her cheerleading pals lined the streets outside her home to wave her off to EVERY chemo session.

Bex Turley, 38, was diagnosed with breast cancer in January 2021 and was forced to go to chemotherapy sessions alone due to restrictions during the pandemic.

Her friends were determined to show their support and lined the streets with placards every week to sing and dance as they waved her off to chemotherapy.

They kept it up every week - even adding choregraphed dance routines - and ended with a huge Dolly Parton themed finale in tribute to Bex's favourite song 'Nine to Five'.

And after 17 weeks, the treatment appears to be working and mum-of-two Bex is on her way to being declared cancer free.

Senior staff nurse Bex said: "Getting surprised by them every week just made everything that little bit easier. They were amazing!

"Seeing the costumes and the dance routines that they'd spent hours rehearsing made me laugh so much during what was such a difficult time.

"I couldn't believe how many people got involved! People were travelling for hours just to come to do this for me and I couldn't be more grateful!"

After finding a lump in her breast on December 27 last year, Bex went to her GP, followed by a private hospital for a mammogram.

Five biopsies and an ultrasound scan later, Bex's was diagnosed with grade three invasive breast cancer.

Bex, who cares for young people with cancer, said: "I'd just finished a night shift looking after kids with cancer and all of their lovely families and I was enjoying a luxurious bath at home.

"I just brushed past my boo b and felt a lump by my armpit. I freaked out - I knew in my heart and bones, I just knew.

"The biopsies were like being tarpooned with a staple gun taking chunks out. It was so painful and I was all on my own, thanks to covid."

Restrictions in place in January 2021 meant Bex had to go to chemotherapy sessions alone.

Bex said: "Obviously there are nurses at the sessions so you're not totally on your own but in normal times you can have people there to support you.

"My friends and family felt helpless - they wanted to help me get through this and ordinarily they would have taken it in turns coming to sit with me at my sessions."

Bex's sisters Rachel and Sophie, and her brother-in-law Richard surprised the mum of two before her first chemotherapy session on January 22.