A mum used her talent for making health and beauty products to help her son who was going through gruelling treatment - and went on to establish a successful business.
28.10.2023 - 10:15 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A mum has been told she only has months left to live after she put off getting a smear test due to being "scared and embarrassed".
Tasha Doran, 40, was previously given the all-clear after being diagnosed with cervical cancer and rung the bell to celebrate the news in August last year.
But not long after her post-cancer journey, the gran-to-be and former deli worker began feeling “sharp shooting pains” in her groin. Specialists told her was a normal response to the radiation therapy that had ravaged her body. After the pain persisted, Tasha was referred for scans in May this year and told her cancer had tragically returned.
Medics told her she has months, rather than years, left to live.
Tasha, from Pembroke Dock in Wales, told Wales Online: “I broke down when they told me. They hadn’t got through telling me before I ran out of the room crying and collapsed to the floor.
"I can’t describe that feeling. I’d been diagnosed in January 2022 with stage three cervical cancer.
"I had that last year and began treatment in the March. It was an unbelievable feeling ringing the bell in August.
"It was the best feeling, knowing I could still be here and be cancer-free for my boy - who is my life. A couple of months later in the October, I had sharp shooting pains in my groin which worsened.
"My oncologist kept telling me it was due to the radiation damage from treatment, but in May I got referred for scans. I had my ultrasound seven weeks ago at the Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr and the woman told me it was obvious it was cancer.
"I then had a PET (positron emission tomography) scan at the Heath and the results showed it had spread through the entirety of my right groin, my cervix and my left lung and that it was terminal.”
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