'I was told I had aggressive cancer on Christmas Day, but now I am disease-free' - cancer patient reveals how drug trial treatment gave her hope

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Sandra Whelan is now cancer-free after taking part in an experimental drug trial at Tallaght Hospital

Eilish O'Regan

Sat 18 May 2024 at 03:30

It should have been an occasion of festive celebration, but on Christmas Day 2019 Sandra Whelan received the devastating news that she had an aggressive form of kidney cancer.

The 60-year-old grandmother from Kiltipper in Dublin, who worked for 20 years in the Dropping Well bar and restaurant in Milltown, had only recently noticed she had passed some blood and decided to get it checked out.