Examine Yourself: 'I thought I was too young to have cancer'

Marian Duggan was in her 20s and could not imagine that her symptoms could be so serious, not even when a tennis-ball-size cyst was removed from her left ovary, says Helen O’Callaghan.

MARIAN Duggan celebrated her five-year, cancer-free milestone this month by going to the novena at Holy Cross Abbey with her mother, Teresa.