Good Morning Ulster programme<\/a>.<\/p>\n“So it was the shock and obviously you’re thinking about your family.<\/p>\n
“I count myself very, very fortunate that at the time I got my diagnosis things moved very quickly and I moved from diagnosis to treatment.”<\/p>\n
She said every day after getting the diagnosis and before the treatment started felt like “a ticking time-bomb, sitting there because you know that every day this is getting worse, the cancer is potentially growing, the tumour is getting bigger.<\/p>\n
“So my heart goes out to anybody who finds themselves in that situation,” she said.<\/p>\n
She said she also wanted to “give a positive message to anybody who’s just starting out on that road”.<\/p>\n
“You hear all the doom and gloom, but it really is doable, it really can be managed,” she said.<\/p>\n
“People need to take responsibility as well,<\/p>\n
“Check yourself for lumps and bumps and all the rest of it, because the earlier you can get your diagnosis, then obviously the better chance that you have.<\/p>\n
“You can’t control how long it’s going to take before you start your treatment, but you can control or have some positive input into when you discover there is a problem.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Suzanne Rodgers was diagnosed with stage four cervical cancer but has been cancer free for more than a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-546455","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}