Cork doctor with bowel cancer: 'More people are getting it under age 50'

Cork doctor Sarah Fitzgibbon didn't expect to hear that her scan had detected cancer, even though she knew it was only a matter of time.

Dr Sarah Fitzgibbon is walking 100 miles to raise money for Women’s Aid, with family and friends helping on the days she is struggling. Picture: Chani Anderson

Dr Sarah Fitzgibbon, who was diagnosed with bowel cancer 10 years ago, feels lucky that for six years after being successfully treated for metastatic cancer, she needed nothing further and her twice-yearly scans were consistently stable. Until May this year.

“Unfortunately, my scan wasn’t clear — an area in my liver had become active with cancer again.” It was a surprise: She had almost forgotten about the CT scan she’d had two weeks earlier.