I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer one year after it killed my sister

Greta Sheahan was shocked when she heard she had cancer for the second time. The diagnosis was all the more distressing as it was the same type of cancer that had claimed the life of her sister a year earlier 

Greta Sheahan, diagnosed with ovarian cancer last year pictured outside the ladies' shoe shop she runs in Charleville, Wild Pair Shoes, on Main Street. Picture: Dan Linehan

Greta Sheahan was hyper-sensitive about her body and understandably so — the 41-year-old mother of two, who runs a ladies’ shoe shop in Charleville, Co Cork, had been diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006.

So in late 2020, after two months of suffering constipation as well as dull ache in her lower abdomen, Greta went to her GP.