‘I survived breast cancer but I lost three siblings to the disease’
With the Irish Cancer Society’s Daffodil Day coming up, Síle Nic Suibhne recalls the day a mammogram changed her life – and how the disease has devastated her family
Síle Nic Suibhne at Rosses Point in Sligo. Photo: Brian FarrellSíle Nic Suibhne had her first mammogram in 2013, almost two years before she turned 50 as there was a family history of the disease – her older sister Kathleen had already gone through breast cancer. In 2015, Síle was due to have her second mammogram with BreastCheck, the national breast screening programme.“Everything was hunky dory [with the first mammogram], results were fine, so when the BreastCheck letter dropped in my letterbox in the February after my 50th, I didn’t even think twice about not going,” recalls Síle, who works as a Special Needs Assistant (SNA) in Sligo.
