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Of all the subtypes of metastatic breast cancer, metastatic Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) is the hardest to treat with the worst prognosis. While new advances in the treatment of hormone…
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All our latest news, campaign updates and blog posts from the METUPUK team and the wider MBC community.
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Emma R is Busy Living with Mets
One of the feelings I remember most about my treatment for primary breast cancer in 2013 is my strength leaving me… I was on my lunch break after starting chemotherapy (yes I worked through treatment…
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Statistics for Metastatic Breast Cancer
We started our campaign in Metastatic May with some information about treatment lines and it really caused a bit of a stir, especially on Instagram. Why? Because people don’t want to think that this…
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Thank you for your support in Metastatic May
Thank you so much to everyone who shared our messages this month. We hope that you learnt a few things on the way too. MetUpUk are the only patient advocacy group to address the issues we’ve been…
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What’s in a name? Palliative Care? Supportive Care?
Earlier this year, Jo wrote a piece on a wish for ‘palliative care’ to be renamed ‘supportive care‘ because it is so intrinsically tied in most people’s minds with ‘end of life’ (EOL) care, whereas…
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Cancer Poverty: The financial burden of metastatic breast cancer… Emma’s Story
Metastatic breast cancer is not only taking the lives of 31 women per day. In the limited time they have left women living with this disease are experiencing financial hardship.
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The 6 types of people you meet when you’ve got breast cancer.
Yup, we’ve all been there and met a few of these guys. Which one is most prevalent in your life?
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A thousand beautiful moments worth living for
When I was first diagnosed with cancer, my primary cancer, at 35 in July 2016 I was determined that I wouldn’t let cancer take over my life. I sat in a chair and thought I’d have 8 months of…
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Drugs, Drugs, Drugs
I think sometimes when those outside the cancer world imagine what treatment is like they think we go in, have some chemo, take some photos dancing around our IV pole and then go home and rest for a…
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The serial killer inside me
I’m 36 and I walk around with a serial killer inside of me. One day soon, almost certainly before my 40th birthday, that serial killer is going to break free and end my life in a slow and painful…
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Write to your MP about Herceptin Access
We really need to raise awareness around what people with secondary cancer require, encouraging the debate to be placed upon the policy table. You can really help us by writing to your local MP (you…
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Friends and family friday – Connie and her friends
MetUpUK member Connie sat down, on zoom, with some of her oldest friends to talk to them about their understanding of her life with MBC. They discuss cancer types, treatment lines, tumor profiling,…
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