By Alanna Kennedy
Advocate Q it was down the road from where I lived. But it was a very different scene in other parts of the country.
It was really that overwhelming feeling of how lucky I was having got the diagnosis and having got it early—and that I happened to be in a part of the country where that went as successfully as it did for me.
CR: What issues most concern Europa Donna Ireland?
Murphy-Whyte: Part of our mission is [to ensure] that women of all ages across Ireland will know what they can expect in terms of the risk of getting breast cancer, that they will get accurately diagnosed, get optimal treatment, and have the recovery and support they need. We have been campaigning for the [national screening program] to be extended the whole way round the country.
And in the last couple of years, [Ireland has] had a number of very public misdiagnosis errors in relation to breast cancer that have really thrown the public spotlight onto the services for breast cancer and have highlighted [the need] to get specialist breast centers in place.
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