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Seanagh Rice

Dublin woman and breast cancer campaigner who sued St James's Hospital over a delayed diagnosis that led to a mastectomy while seven months pregnant.

Oct 20, 2026

4:16
So be- before you were pregnant.
4:19
Yeah.
4:20
Yeah.
4:20
So w- basically, my mom passed away on Christmas Eve back in 2012 from breast cancer, and when she was going through all of her treatment, she had the BRCA, um, gene mutation, um, test done to see if she, she carried the gene so we could all be tested.
4:36
Um, and back in 2018, I found out that I was the carrier of the BRCA2 gene mutation.
4:43
So since then, I've been getting regular breast checks, MRIs every single year, like, in January to April, I'd get them.
4:51
And this was just a normal January back in 2004.

18 MINS LATER

23:03
Yeah.

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