All change…

Since before November 2022 there have been some issues going on with rising tumour markers. My oncologist and myself had been monitoring them. Then something happened, my oncologist went on leave for a year. We had talks before he left about possibilities of a treatment change or other options. It was something I really feared doing. A [...]

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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 cannot make it [...]

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 trial almost 4 [...]

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 regularly in my head. [...]

Lisa’s ride to recovery

In April 2018 my world changed dramatically when I found out I had breast cancer. I had always been so fit and healthy. Life was good, my husband had just set up his [...]

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.  Sadly, the system is [...]

ABC4 – Advanced Breast Cancer 4 Lisbon Portugal – October 2017

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 for metastatic [...]

Breast Cancer Awareness Month 2018

Everyone knows October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.  If you don't know you must be living on the moon or maybe you have hibernated for the whole of October.  It's in [...]

ABCD Exercise Retreat to Recovery

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

ESMO17 – European Society of Medical Oncology 2017 conference in Madrid

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 at Manchester [...]

2017 – it’s been a busy year…

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 used.  I've not been [...]
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