Vicky Phelan: 'I'd be either dead now or on the way out' if I heeded medical advice

Vicky Phelan says it is a huge honour to be awarded an Honorary Fellowship at Waterford Institute of Technology.

By Conor Kane

Cervical cancer campaigner Vicky Phelan has said she believes she would now be dead or close to death had she taken medical advice to undergo palliative chemotherapy rather than carrying out her own research into new treatment.