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 – a sea of pink. I’ve been asked a couple of times how to respond to the silly pink games, tutus and feather boas that you will see during October, and have decided to write about the [...]

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Breast Cancer Awareness Month 2018

  28th October 2018
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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

  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 pilot abcd retreat [...]

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 [...]

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 #notsecondrate.  [...]

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 [...]