My breast cancer diagnosis: Telling my children was the hardest part 

When mum-of-two Leona Daly was diagnosed with breast cancer, she was advised by the hospital to be honest with her children. It was Christmas week which made the conversation all more difficult

Leona Daly who was diagnosed with breast cancer in December 2018. Picture: Moya Nolan

Leona Daly wasn’t too concerned when medics spotted a shadow on her mammogram, not even when they said she’d need a biopsy.

“I’d had a biopsy the year before for a similar shadow,” explains the 51-year-old Clontarf-based mum of two, who’d been having annual mammograms because of various nipple changes detected over the years.