Ass a scientist, Bridget Prendiville knows how to listen to her body. So when four mammograms showed no evidence of breast cancer but Bridget still felt that something still wasn’t right, she pushed for further checks.
“I requested an ultrasound in my left breast, which showed some irregularities, so they biopsied it and discovered I had stage 3 breast cancer,” says Bridget, who’s lived in Tauranga since 1999.
That was in late 2020 and Bridget, the mother of TVNZ sports reporter Michelle Prendiville, underwent