By the time Joan Durney was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer she felt angry and let down by a healthcare system that seemed inaccessible during the Covid-19 pandemic. Having recovered from breast cancer previously, the 63-year-old Tralee resident said she knew something was “eating” at her body and that her condition was “deteriorating rapidly”. The morning after her MRI scan she was informed her breast cancer had returned and spread to her lungs and her bones. Speaking to the Irish Times on the first day of her palliative treatment, Ms Durney “could not speak highly enough” about her treatment post-diagnosis. Ms Durney said she feels “let down” by a healthcare system that had been good to her before.

Source: The Irish Times March 24, 2021 09:12 UTC