secondary breast cancer

Breast Cancer Awareness Month 2020

  28th September 2020
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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?

  6th September 2020
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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

  12th January 2020
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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…

  11th December 2019
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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 [...]