Two women with incurable breast cancer have become life-long friends after bonding over more than 600 rounds of chemotherapy between them. Margie Shields was always wary about her health after watching both her mum and her sister go through breast cancer and instantly "sensed there was something wrong" when developed a pain "like a nagging toothache" in her breast.
After undergoing tests at Royal Liverpool Hospital, she was diagnosed with breast cancer and given a life expectancy of one to two years. But after 20 years, more than 300 rounds of chemotherapy, and a double mastectomy, Margie is still fighting.
Her breast cancer, which has spread to the bones in her chest and shoulder, is incurable and requires lifelong treatment, but she says constant medical developments have kept her alive. On her first day of chemotherapy at the Linda McCartney Centre at the Royal, Margie met fellow breast cancer patient Ann Hannah, and the pair quickly became close friends, the Liverpool Echo reports.
