breast cancer Archives – The College View

Caring for your pair is vital this Breast Cancer Awareness month

October 13, 2021

This pandemic-led hesitation is reflected in the number of mammograms carried out by the HSE’s BreastCheck screening programme falling by more than two-thirds in 2020, leading to the detection of 600 fewer breast cancers.

Cancer does not have to be deadly

March 7, 2018

Fear. That’s all that Máire can recall. It seeped into her veins, into her mind and into her soul. On the day that Máire was diagnosed with breast cancer, all she heard was the dreaded

UCD student develops potential treatment for aggressive breast cancer

January 17, 2017

Johna Jennings was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer a few weeks ago. When she first heard that she had cancer she cried until she could not cry anymore. She wanted to know why this

Through My Eyes: The Loss of a Beautiful Life

December 12, 2012

My aunt died from cancer at the age of 37 on Monday November 19, in Morocco, surrounded by her five older siblings. When I last saw Naziha in a Belgian hospital in September, she was

It’s time to get the girls: Breast Cancer Awareness Month

October 17, 2012

Most people know that October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Everything’s pink and women and men alike proudly sport the pink ribbon. But what most people don’t know is that a woman in Ireland is