Olivia Maher, who lost her mum to the disease last year, advises people to go to the doctor as soon as they notice anything unusual
‘She had always been so full of life and suddenly she seemed to start slipping away’. Photo: Frank McGrath
Each year around 600 people are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in Ireland – and while the figures are relatively low, so too are the survival rates, with only around 10pc of patients surviving beyond five years of diagnosis.
Mum-of-two Olivia Maher knows only too well how aggressive pancreatic cancer be, as her beloved mother Goretti lost her battle with the disease last September.