All our latest news, campaign updates and blog posts from the METUPUK team and the wider MBC community.
In 2018 I was diagnosed with secondary breast cancer in my liver, I was 44. I knew the survival statistics were grim, so decided from the outset, in order to outlive the 2 to 3-year median I’d have…
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Under NICE rules, I would not be eligible to receive the medication that I am currently taking for my metastatic breast cancer on the NHS. I have been on my current drug regime since 2017, I am…
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I have been living with secondary breast cancer for 7 years, and am very aware that I’m one of the very lucky ones as the median life expectancy is 2-3 years. The general public perception of breast…
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Stage 4 breast cancer with a pacemaker Most people know someone with a pacemaker, and chances are that person will be elderly. The average age of a first pacemaker implantation in the UK is 72, but…
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On March 22nd In Wales, the 20 page cancer delivery plan (CDP) had been replaced by a vague 3 quality statement. (QS) The WHO recommends every nation should have a CDP and just like that Wales became…
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I was diagnosed with primary breast cancer in April 2018. It didn’t come as a surprise to me as my mum had died from breast cancer a few years earlier having been diagnosed with primary breast cancer…
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MetUpUK Member Tassia discusses “Going Backwards. Cutting Corners for Breast Cancer Diagnosis”
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I remember first hearing about genomics testing for cancer, about a year after my diagnosis of secondary breast cancer. I had failed on every line of treatment I’d been given, was fast running out of…
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It’s not always easy to accept help and support. I was diagnosed with cancer in my early thirties when I was already struggling with a lot of feelings of failure.
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My name is Miranda Ashitey. I’m 38 and I’m from Croydon. I was diagnosed with secondary breast cancer on the 14th of February 2019.
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There is a natural instinct when you are diagnosed with something like cancer to seek out like-minded folk. I assume it probably applies to a lot of situations. But the people you seek out when you…
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February 4th is World Cancer Day. Except that this February 4th, Cancer isn’t the only C that MetUpUK members are having to live with. Some of our team have shared how COVID has affected their life…
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