Andrea Gilligan

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Family Flowers Only by Grief Ireland · Family Flowers Only with Andrea Gilligan · 14 Jun 2026 podcast

Would that have changed things?

Possibly.

We'll never know.

However, I mean, you have medical standards and guidelines for a reason.

And at that point in time, he didn't meet what would have been the required criteria, you know, to be somebody who they would suggest would need chemotherapy and radiation.

Well,

I mean, to see him.

To that point where he finds out it's in his brain.

Like, was there symptoms at that point?

So in the first year and a half, no.

I mean, people couldn't believe that.

And he was exceptionally open about it.

He nearly saw it as kind of like...

I think he nearly saw himself as a little bit of a kind of, you know, an educator or somebody to kind of raise an awareness about this.

Yeah, because his point was, you know, well, this is what the screening program is for.

The screening program is to screen for small polyps that could become cancerous or are cancerous or maybe are a stage one or a grade one, you know, and could potentially develop into something bigger or worse.

And that's the purpose of the screening programme.

So, for all purposes, it worked in this case in that it identified something at a small stage that was removed and didn't grow back.

However,

What had obviously happened in the interim period was that it had spread to other organs in the body.

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