Woman with incurable cancer settles case and pleads for annual MRI scans for others

The woman had asked the HSE to highlight the need for MRIs for those who possess the BRCA 'cancer gene' to its clinicians and breast services

The woman claimed that had an MRI examination of her breasts been carried out in a timely manner following her attendance at the Limerick hospital in September 2021, her tumour would have been detected at a time when it would have been Stage 1 and probably curable. File picture

A young mother with incurable breast cancer has warned others with a family history of cancer to insist on annual MRI scans as well as other radiology.

The 37-year-old woman who learned she had Stage 4 breast cancer just six days after the birth of her second baby issued the warning outside the High Court where she had settled an action against the HSE over her care at University Hospital Limerick and a GP.