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Penny: Had I not checked regularly, I might not be sat here today. #BCAMANDME

Penny: Had I not checked regularly, I might not be sat here today. #BCAMANDME

"Don't just think of it for one month" 📅Penny's message for Breast Cancer Awareness Month is an important one.So much focus put on the important ta...

Vicky: What people don't tell you about cancer #BCAMandMe

Following a diagnosis, there is often a set of actions that take place, through the NHS.But what happens after these have ended? How do you cop...

Nicky: IVF and Secondary Breast Cancer #BCAMandMe

Nicky was diagnosed with secondary breast cancer as her first diagnosis, whereas Laura's initial diagnosis was primary breast cancer and then later...

Metastatic patients are being ignored - #BCAMANDME

Secondary breast cancer doesn’t get the attention it so desperately needs. It is an issue that applies to most metastatic cancers; patients are not...

Marie: My one piece of advice would be to reach out to others #BCAMandMe

When diagnosed with cancer, Marie found that reaching out to others with exactly the same condition helped her to relax her mind and keep both feet...

Claire: I want secondary breast cancer to be more prominent #BCAMandMe

Many people know about primary breast cancer, we hear about it regularly, especially as it is it is pushed onto our screens throughout the month of...

Louisa: We're just going to breathe together #BCAMandMe

Anxieties mean that many of us experience interrupted sleep. This gives feelings of fatigue and low moods which, in turn, make it trickier to sleep...

What is Cancer? #BCAMandMe

There are many different types of cancer, no two experiences of it are the same, or definable with a single sentence. Listen to patients discuss wh...

Carly: Please, Please check your boobs #BCAMandMe

Carly Moosah is a breast cancer advocate and blogger. Having experienced breast cancer herself, Carly has written blog posts on the topic of "pick...

What you need to know about clinical trials: the patient perspective

Mary Huckle explains why she feels we need to change the conversation around clinical trials, believing that talking about clinical trials more ope...

31 days of 'what Breast Cancer Awareness Month means to me.' #BCAMandME

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jennifer Young (@beautydespitecancer) Breast Cancer Awarene...

Cancer patients are still being turned away from spas, but it doesn’t have to be that way

Cancer patients are still being turned away from spas and refused treatments. That’s despite training in oncology touch treatments now being availa...

I don’t know what to say

It’s difficult to know isn’t it? More people than not ask us for advice about what to say to someone has been diagnosed or is going through treatme...