I didn’t think I’d be lucky enough to survive cancer a second time 

Ann-Marie Durcan was diagnosed with breast cancer in her early 20s, days after the birth of her second child. In her mid-30s, she was told she had ovarian cancer. 

Ann-Marie Durcan and her son Patrick in 2021 Picture: FoKiss Photography

FROM a young age, Ann-Marie Durcan believed she’d one day get breast cancer.

Based near Ballina, County Mayo, the 36-year-old mum-of-three lost her own mother to the disease when she was just six. Her aunt had earlier died from breast cancer.