‘Why don’t I matter?’ Scots mum battling cancer has life-saving op axed due to Covid cases as she begs people to follow rules
Covid-19 rules after having a potentially life-saving operation cancelled due to rising cases.Claire Monaghan was diagnosed with oestrogen positive breast cancer in January last year before undergoing gruelling courses of chemo and radiotherapy.The 47-year-old writer also had a double mastectomy after discovering she had the BRCA2 gene which increases her risk of developing the disease again.The mum-of-three was due to have her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed on January 7 but health chiefs were forced to cancel the op due to soaring coronavirus cases.Claire, from Dunfermline, Fife, told of her shock diagnosis after going in to be tested for the breast cancer gene when two family members developed the disease.She explained: “I had two