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 and by the end of January the mad rush of people had died down to a dribble. Get fit! Diet! Healthy eating! Lose weight! New Year; new you! Get a bikini body! Here we are again, social media is [...]

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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 at Manchester [...]

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 used.  I've not been [...]

Update re previous blog & infographic

  6th December 2017
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I thought I’d let you know where I am with everything that’s happened lately. Breast Cancer Care looked into what happened, and after a discussion and review of events I [...]

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 cancer that has [...]

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 really think of it [...]

If you want something done, well do it yourself…

  12th October 2017
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Secondary Breast Cancer Data & Statistics   I started to campaign about the lack of data and statistics for secondary breast cancer back at the end of 2015 as [...]

Secondary Breast Cancer Infographic – #SBCinfographic

  12th October 2017
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In 2015 I produced an infographic which I felt was hugely needed for patients understanding the "red flag symptoms" of secondary/metastatic/advanced breast cancer. The [...]

Lucy and Maggie’s

  2nd October 2017
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I attended the opening of the new Maggie's centre which is located at the Royal Oldham hospital. The Oldham Maggie's centre is the 21st building built by the charity in [...]

Grabbing life with both hands

  19th June 2017
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The previous week to surgery on the Wednesday (my surgery was booked for Thursday 11th May)  I had a CT scan and on the way home had a call from a nurse at Wythenshawe [...]

The gift that keeps on giving…

  9th May 2017
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It was January since my last update and lots has happened with myself and at abcd towers. Thankfully February turned out to be a good month with the results from the bone [...]