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Speaking to BBC Radio Ulster’s Good Morning Ulster programme, Ms Doherty said she was told that she had a large ovarian cyst in 2020 and had to get a full hysterectomy after discovering she had ovarian and fallopian tube cancer.

“It was out of the blue and a total worry and your life all of a sudden changes,” she said.

Following the major surgery and six months of chemotherapy, Ms Doherty was then told that her cancer had returned.

“I was then told that I have cancer again in three places this time, so I was very shocked because I thought I was on the road to recovery,” she said.

“I was told that, particularly with ovarian cancer, it can lie in the soft tissue and regenerate so I am going through treatment again at the moment.

“They have told me now, even with this treatment, that it is between a two to four years prognosis.

“I am a positive person, you have to be positive, I obviously hope that is not the case and I’m trying to put that prognosis aside and do different things for myself.”