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UTV journalist Barbara McCann's breast cancer story
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09/11/2024
UTV journalist Barbara McCann's breast cancer story
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A routine mammogram saved my life, I would not have detected it myself.
00:09
I'm in the age group where women are invited to go for a mammogram every three years.
00:17
When I got my invitation this year, I threw it aside because I thought I don't need to
00:23
go for one this year.
00:25
Simply because a month earlier I had had an operation to remove a benign tumour from one
00:32
of my ovaries and I thought, well they did all the cancer checks then so I'm not going
00:36
to bother.
00:37
But something made me think again and I thought, well the health service provide this service
00:46
for women, they have put it all together so I really should go and I did, which is just
00:52
as well because my cancer is so small that I couldn't have detected it myself.
00:58
I was never in the habit of checking myself anyway and if I had left it and decided not
01:06
to go for that mammogram, it would have been another three years before I would have been
01:11
tested and that might have been too late for me.
01:16
Don't put off going for a mammogram.
01:18
If you're invited to have a mammogram, go.
01:22
Don't do what I do initially, say no, because it could save your life.
01:28
I'm forever grateful to the service that is provided for women and I feel very confident
01:36
and happy and positive about the future.
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