Liz O’Riordan: The silent collateral damage of breast cancer, would surprise you

Liz O’Riordan shared on X:

“This is what I live with every day – chronic pain, tight scars and severe cording.

Physiotherapy helps a bit. Pain killers help a bit. Lifting weights helps a bit.

Multiple ops, 2 full rounds of radiotherapy, one frozen shoulder, permanently restricted movement and power which forced me to retire as a breast surgeon.

The silent collateral damage of breast cancer, well any cancer, would surprise you.”

Source: Liz O’Riordan/X

Liz O’Riordan is a motivational speaker, writer, cancer patient, and advocate from the UK, who blogs about her experiences. She has written articles for the Huffington Post, Macmillan, The Pool, and Grazia. Her TEDx talk is called ‘Jar of Joy’. She is the co-author of the book “The Complete Guide to Breast Cancer” (2018), and recently released her memoir “Under the Knife” (2023). In 2016 Dr. O’Riordan was nominated for the “Woman of the Year” award. In 2017, the UK Blog Awards highly commended her for her blog “Breast Surgeon with Breast Cancer”. In the same year, she was nominated as one of Medscape’s best physicians of the year.