Sunday Brunch presenter Morgan McGlynn Carr has been diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer at the age of 38.
Sharing a photo of herself from her hospital bed, she wrote:: "On the eve of my daughter's first birthday, I found a lump in my right breast. I'd recently stopped breastfeeding and assumed it was related. But my husband made me promise to go to the doctor first thing Monday - and, by pure chance it happened to be CoppaFeel! Week. My feed was full of women talking about breast cancer.
"The GP said it was definitely breastfeeding-related. The breast clinic consultant said she was 99% sure it was nothing. I got a third opinion and that decision saved my life... Trust your gut. Always."
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Revealing she received her diagnosis last October, Sunday Brunch's resident cheesemonger continued: "In October 2024, I was diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer. It was nothing short of earth-shattering.
"But we've done our best to keep life as normal as possible for our daughter."
According to Macmillan, Triple negative breast cancer is a less common type of breast cancer. About one in five breast cancers are triple negative (15 to 20%).
Triple negative cancers whose cells don’t have receptors for the hormones oestrogen and progesterone and a protein called Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2 (HER2).
Megan, who married husband Ben Carr in 2022, explained she was given a week before her chemotherapy started to "get her ducks in a row", which included IVF and egg retrieval.
She explained: "Treatment is different for every person. No two paths are the same. But here's what happened to me.
"I was given a week before chemo to get my ducks in a row, which included chopping my hair off and IFV and egg retrieval, something I'm incredibly grateful I was able to do."
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