'Doctors told me I had 3 years to live - I'm still here running dream business'

20 June 2023 , 09:49

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Roisin was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2014 when she was 34 weeks pregnant (Image: Roisin Pelan)

In 2018, doctors told me to aim for three years of life. Yet here I am five years later - still bringing home the clear scans!

I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2014 while 34 weeks pregnant at the age of 32. Three years later, it came back and I was told it was no longer going to curable.

It was, as you can imagine, the hardest, most terrifying thing we'd ever been through. My husband and I had just been approved to adopt a child and it was all taken away in an instant.

Ivy, our daughter, was just three-years-old and the idea that I was going to have to leave her was the most desperate pain I'd ever felt.

Roisin Pelan