article_snippet.sent: Emma Hannigan had Emma Hannigan breasts and ovaries removed in 2006 to reduce Emma Hannigan risk of cancer after Emma Hannigan was diagnosed with the faulty BRCA1 gene .
article_snippet.sent: Emma Hannigan opted to have a double mastectomy and oophorectomy the following year, to reduce Emma Hannigan risk.
article_snippet.sent: But despite the drastic surgery, the 42-year-old received the diagnosis Emma Hannigan had been dreading - Emma Hannigan had breast cancer.
article_snippet.sent: Since that point, Emma Hannigan has battled breast cancer a staggering nine times, including four bouts in the space of a year.
article_snippet.sent: Emma Hannigan is now undergoing chemotherapy every three weeks as specialists try to keep breast cancer at bay.
article_snippet.sent: Mrs Hannigan, an author from Bray, near Dublin, said despite it failing to prevent cancer, Emma Hannigan does not regret having preventative surgery.
article_snippet.sent: I didn't look at it like I was losing my ovaries or breasts,' Emma Hannigan said. '
article_snippet.sent: But at the age of 33, Emma Hannigan was devastated when Emma Hannigan was told, just a year after having surgery, that Emma Hannigan had cancer. '
article_snippet.sent: Since 2007, Mrs Hannigan, an author, has battled breast cancer nine times, including facing four bouts in one year.
highlights_snippet.sent: A year later Emma Hannigan had Emma Hannigan breasts and ovaries removed to prevent cancer .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: But in 2007, despite the surgery, Emma Hannigan was diagnosed with breast cancer .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Since then Emma Hannigan has battled breast cancer nine times - four times in one year .