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A mother of two who survived breast cancer is urging other women to attend their cervical screenings and have any bodily changes investigated promptly.<\/p>\n
Roisin Pelan was heavily pregnant when she noticed a lump on her left breast, prompting her to get in touch with her GP.<\/p>\n
Much to her relief, she was initially told that changes during pregnancy were to be expected, leaving the lump to go completely unexamined.<\/p>\n
Despite the good news, however, Roisin felt a tinge of doubt about being sent away without being thoroughly checked.<\/p>\n
\u201cI google the symptoms and was reassured to read that this was normal,\u201d she said. \u201cBack in 2014, there was hardly any information around on breast cancer – both during and after pregnancy.\u201d<\/p>\n
READ MORE:\u00a0\u2018I\u2019m a gynaecologist – here are four early signs of cervical cancer’<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Despite doctors insisting all was well, the size of the lump grew persistently over two weeks. When Roisin booked another appointment a doctor expressed concern about the hardness of the growth.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n She explained: \u201cWithin a week I had been diagnosed with breast cancer. I was 32 years old and 34 weeks pregnant and it was the worst time of our lives.<\/p>\n \u201cOur daughter was born two weeks later after I was induced. Six days after Ivy arrived, I had a mastectomy, followed by six months of chemotherapy.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Roisin questioned: \u201cWhat if I hadn\u2019t pushed for that second appointment? What if I had taken the first doctor\u2019s work for it and accepted it was normal?\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n The brave mother explained that symptoms of breast cancer are frequently mistaken for changes during pregnancy and breastfeeding.<\/p>\n As such, she is stressing how important it is for women to \u201cknow your normal\u201d and be prompt in checking out any unusual changes in the body.<\/p>\n Unfortunately for Roisin, the ordeal didn\u2019t end there. She revealed: \u201cMy cancer returned in 2018 after I had been telling my team that something wasn\u2019t right in my left arm and underarms area.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Doctors told Roisin her pains were related to her mastectomy, and she was sent home, only to discover a large lump under her collarbone a few days later.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Today, the mother-of-two is urging other women to remember that \u201cno one wants you to live more than you do\u201d.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n She added: \u201cDoctors and nurses won\u2019t lose sleep over you insisting on follow-ups and referrals\u2026 but you will if you don\u2019t push for them. And remember, most cancers can be cured when found early.\u201d<\/p>\n DON’T MISS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ad_1] A mother of two who survived breast cancer is urging other women to attend their cervical screenings and have any bodily changes investigated promptly. Roisin Pelan was heavily pregnant when she noticed a lump on her left breast, prompting her to get in touch with her GP. Much to her relief, she was initially …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[763],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}