New keyhole techniques are amazing

CANCER nurse Maggie Fay (above) was diagnosed with oesophageal cancer just after her 60th birthday.

“It was strange to attend the same chemotherapy unit I worked in, but I felt safe and reassured to be treated by my colleagues,” she says.

“I was amazed by the keyhole surgery they do now.

“And they’ve found that giving chemotherapy to shrink the tumour before surgery is really helpful.

“In the 1960s, when I started nursing, there wasn’t any chemotherapy to give.”