Laura Dowling

Can you tell us a bit about that part of your life?

And you're in the hospitality industry mainly for most of your career.

But now you're, are you, are you working now?

Or is it the studying has taken over this master's that you're doing?

Yeah.

And we do have good cancer care in Ireland.

In general, when someone does get diagnosed, they do get looked after very well, whether they be public or private, which isn't the case in many other countries.

And we know that.

So we do have to take a step back and understand that people are looked after.

There is hope.

And we just need more, as you said, advocacy, more funding.

But I expect that it will be hard to even get funding because when I think of cancer, I think of breast cancer.

I think many people do.

That will be the cancer that I think will be the most highlighted.

It probably receives the most funding.

So is it difficult to get funding?

Do you just do a lot of fundraising yourself or how does it work?

It's been wonderful talking to you and I've learned so much as well because I didn't know very much about pancreatic cancer and I am shocked that it will be the number two

most diagnosed cancer in the Western world by 2030.

Yeah, it's a frightening statistic.