The lump that changed my life forever

Liagh Miller was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008. After a mastectomy and gruelling chemotherapy, she is cancer-free and enjoying the small things, says Helen O’Callaghan.

It was 2008 and life was good for Liagh, now 45. A financial services worker, she’d just returned to Ireland after several years in New Zealand.

Three weeks into her new job in Dublin, Liagh was in London on a business trip.