Thu, 18 Feb, 2021 - 16:38
Cork woman told she would never have children celebrates baby joy and clean bill of health 3 years after shock cancer diagnosis
Nuala O Brien celebrating three years cancer-free with her son, Shay.
Maeve Lee
A CORK woman is marking three years of being cancer-free with a new baby and a fundraiser for the charity that was her “safe place” while she was sick.
Nuala O’Brien was just 23 when she “by chance” discovered that she had cancer after a fall on a night out.
The Glanworth native cut her hand went to A&E where a student staff member she got chatting to asked if she could practice conducting a chest X-ray.
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I m a cancer survivor a privilege denied to many
Karen Murray recently got the final all-clear, 10 years after she was first diagnosed with breast cancer. She looks back on a long and emotional journey
Karen Murray: There is no right or wrong way to cope with cancer fighting back is all you can do. Picture: Larry Cummins
Thu, 04 Feb, 2021 - 12:05
Karen Murray
Ten years ago, breast cancer came crashing into my life like a black sheep relation that nobody wants visiting them.
Barely a week into my 40s with two children under six, it hit like a ton of bricks. There had been no prior sickness, no warning signs, no family history. Just a lump that my GP initially played down as a ‘probably harmless’ cyst or fibroid.
Our blankets wrap people up in love : caring for Cork cancer patients in lockdown
Cork Cancer Care Centre has made the best of the lockdown circumstances it can, but its Blankets of Hope programme continues to provide comfort in trying times
Linda Goggin-James: Cork Cancer Care CEO is proud of Blankets of Hope s over 25,000 blankets made for cancer patients the world over
Mon, 25 Jan, 2021 - 14:27
Linda Goggin-James
As CEO at Cork Cancer Care Centre, I am used to the building bustling with chat. I think that this lockdown has been the hardest of them all - on everybody.
Cork Cancer Care remained open throughout this time. Our holistic therapies had to stop because they are touch therapies, but we do counselling and psychotherapy by phone and online and a huge percentage of ours are face to face. It s very hard to talk about how you are feeling on a Zoom call.