Browsing: Breast Foot Forward

Meagan O’Hehir and Heather Cust met years before cancer entered either of their lives, crossing paths on the netball courts of the Rosebud Football Netball Club. It would take a diagnosis, then another, to turn a passing acquaintance into a partnership that now reaches dozens of peninsula families a year. Meagan was 33, fit and healthy when, in October 2022, she found a lump in her breast. The diagnosis was invasive HER2-positive breast cancer. What followed was a year of IVF to preserve her fertility, six rounds of chemotherapy, surgery, five weeks of radiation, twelve months of immunotherapy, and multiple…