secondary breast cancer

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

11th December 2019

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 [...]

Life on a Phase 1 Clinical Trial

19th August 2019

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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 [...]

Mary

19th February 2019

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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. [...]

ABC4 – Advanced Breast Cancer 4 Lisbon Portugal – October 2017

3rd November 2018

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In October 2017 it was the ABC4 conference and I haven't posted my blog until now (there's a reason behind this at the end) - this is a conference specifically [...]

ABCD Exercise Retreat to Recovery

27th June 2018

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"MOTIVATION & EXERCISE THROUGH RECOVERY & BEYOND" Earlier this year I applied to the National Lottery for their "Awards for All" grant after my [...]

ESMO17 – European Society of Medical Oncology 2017 conference in Madrid

2nd April 2018

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FRIDAY It was an early morning flight to Madrid so I had to get up at 3.30am with taxi pick up at 4am for the 6.30am flight. I've never been to Terminal 3 [...]

2017 – it’s been a busy year…

31st December 2017

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It's been a busy year, lots has happened with ABCD and myself in 2017. With the results from the bone and CT scans and the word “stable” has been [...]

Letter to your MP about secondary/metastatic/advanced breast cancer

29th November 2017

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Dear (MP), I am writing to urge you to act now about metastatic breast cancer (also known as secondary breast cancer). Metastatic breast cancer is [...]

Don’t Talk To Me About Charity

24th November 2017

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A friend asked me a few days ago "you work so hard! Do you find it difficult as you work on breast cancer all the time?" The honest answer is no, I don't [...]

Secondary Breast Cancer – Data and Statistics

12th October 2017

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I started to campaign about the lack of data and statistics for secondary breast cancer back at the end of 2015 as I knew of the Breast Cancer Care campaign [...]