Áine Martin was 37 when she noticed a lump in her breast. Her decision to go straight to her doctor proved vital to her treatment
“She didn’t find any other area of concern but referred me to the symptomatic breast clinic, saying that if I hadn’t heard in two weeks to give her a call. But I was told by the clinic that I could be waiting for over a month, so I asked my doctor to refer me privately and I got an appointment the following week for a mammogram, ultrasound and biopsy.
Unfortunately, the 37-year-old was right in her predictions and when she returned to the hospital in Galway to receive her test results, she was indeed diagnosed with cancer. But because she had presented early, the outcome looked positive. “So my friend dropped me to the hospital on the Wednesday morning for surgery at 11am and I woke up afterwards at around 2pm. I was told that they were confident that they had got all the cancer and I was discharged into the care of my sister-in-law at 5pm.
“The sessions would take place once every two weeks and I would be getting two different types of chemo drugs – the first four sessions would be a Taxol and the second four sessions would be a combination drug called AC.“The oncologist said that I would lose my hair and she advised me that given my age [35 at the time] and the fact that I didn’t already have children, it would be a good idea to harvest my eggs.
The Roscommon woman started chemotherapy on October 7th, 2021 and finished on January 13th, 2022, before going on to start a course of radiotherapy. “Then I started radiotherapy on February 8th, 2022 and had my last round of 20 sessions of radiotherapy on the 8th of March 2022. This was very hard on the skin and I still have a bit of scar tissue and skin irritation from it. But I am now on Tamoxifen for the next five years – a tablet hormone treatment – and I have regular check-ups, scans etc with my oncologist and the surgeon.”
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