living with and beyond cancer

End of the year summary for 2022

End of the year summary for 2022 Introduction 2022 has been another very busy year as I have continued to work tirelessly to bring about improvements for [...]

Portacath

  Seven years ago I had a portacath fitted. I want to share some information based on my own experience. This will hopefully help you make the right [...]

Breast Cancer Awareness Month 2020

A long but very important post coming up – please read this. It’s nearly October and we all know what’s in store - #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth [...]

What happened to you in lockdown?

I'm sure that there are many answers to how you dealt with lockdown and myself?  A few weeks ago I posted on my personal facebook account at how I loved [...]

New Year Resolutions

I wrote a blog back in 2014 “Pinktober it will turn you green” which mentioned the amount of people that decided to make a new year resolution of exercise [...]

Surgery, “Special Achievement Award” from Oldham Sports Awards and there’s more…

Surgery In January 2018 I had a follow up appointment with my breast surgeon. This isn’t my original surgeon from North Manchester hospital.  I happened [...]

ESMO18 Munich October 2018

Before ESMO2019 I wanted to give you a look at last years blog that I had written and never published until now.  I was suppose to be at ESMO2019 but sadly I [...]

Life on a Phase 1 Clinical Trial

When I was told in late 2015 that I’d secured the last place on a phase 1 clinical trial, I didn’t in my wildest dreams think I’d end up still on that [...]

Informed Consent

When I was first diagnosed with my secondary breast cancer, my oncologist said that the disease was “treatable but not curable” and those words ring [...]

Mary

Mary now has a terminal disease, there are drugs and trials out there in the rest of the world but she can’t access them because she lives in the UK.  [...]
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