‘I leapt at chance to be involved in cancer trial’

Rosaline O’Brien, from Cappamore, Co Limerick, knew nothing about cancer trials until she was diagnosed with breast cancer in January 2013.

Rosaline, 55, the mother of three grown-up sons, works as a nurse at University Hospital Limerick where she is treated by Dr Linda Coate, a consultant medical oncologist.

“I was actually diagnosed through BreastCheck and had my surgery in Cork