Are you a breast cancer survivor? Would you like to share your story?

Each October during Breast Cancer Awareness month, the Irish Cancer Society aims to educate people on breast cancer prevention, risk factors for developing breast cancer, signs and symptoms of breast cancer, and the importance of early detection. We regularly receieve requests from the press to talk to people about their experiences. Would you like to tell your story?

Are you a breast cancer survivor? Would you like to share your story?

Each October during Breast Cancer Awareness month, the Irish Cancer Society aims to educate people on breast cancer prevention, risk factors for developing breast cancer, signs and symptoms of breast cancer, and the importance of early detection.

As part of this work, journalists from both print and broadcast media regularly contact us and ask if we can get in touch with people who are happy to be interviewed about their cancer experience.

If you have gone through a cancer journey, we would really appreciate if you could tell us what it was like for you.

Real life stories really help in encouraging all of us to be more ‘cancer aware’ and to go and see our GP if we are worried about our health or risk of developing cancer. It also shows other people who are going through a cancer journey that they are not alone.

In reality, becoming a media volunteer would mean a journalist calling you, conducting a phone interview and possibly sending a photographer to take a picture of you. Your story would then appear in a national or local newspaper or magazine, on our website or in an Irish Cancer Society publication. It might also mean talking about your cancer experience on the radio or appearing on television.

If you think that you would like to become a media volunteer or would like the opportunity to discuss what this means a little further with us, we would love to hear from you. Please email us at communications@irishcancer.ie or call the Communications team on 01 231 0500.