Anna Hickey: 'This would not have been picked up if I’d had my mammogram on the original date.' It is not normal to be grateful for a delayed hospital appointment, but for Anna Hickey, it was extremely fortunate. Had her mammogram gone ahead as scheduled, cancer cells would not have been detected. “Thankfully, the cancer hadn’t spread, so I didn’t need further treatment and was able to have a reconstruction at the same time. This meant that when I woke up from surgery, I wasn’t faced with the loss of a breast,” she adds.

Source: The Irish Times March 20, 2026 02:33 UTC