All our latest news, campaign updates and blog posts from the METUPUK team and the wider MBC community.
Are you wondering what you can do to support #SecondaryBreastCancer patients during #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth? Have you heard about #MetastaticBreastCancer, but still have questions? Do you want to…
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What’s your postcode and what does that say about you? If I asked a healthy person about the importance of their postcode I suspect they’d tell me about local schools, crime rates and jobs. If I…
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Over the past week, METUP-UK member Bex Lewis has appeared on BBC Radio 5, BBC Radio 4, and BBC Radio Manchester, talking about the real-world impact for those of us undergoing cancer treatment…
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Hi my name is Kit and apparently I’m a stubborn cow! Now the person who told me that didn’t think it was a good thing. But for a secondary breast cancer patient it is a vital and life extending…
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All of us in the metastatic cancer community are deeply sad that Sarah Harding is now dealing with secondary breast cancer, but the language used is problematic: Author Marion Keyes commented on…
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Thank you to all Beth’s family and friends who donated towards METUPUK from her funeral. £3476 was donated by you all which we are hugely grateful for. https://www.gofundme.com/f/metupuk We will let…
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I’m 36 years old and I’m dying of secondary breast cancer. As a result I’m petrified 24/7. I’m currently waiting for scan results that will tell me if my current treatment is still working. I’m…
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As a secondary breast cancer patient living with an incurable disease, I feel very strongly about wording. Wording like fight, battle and lost/loosing. Words matter. So, I also think that words…
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10th July 2020 Hi Debbie, Trying to condense the points from the June email with attachments I sent you. Going forward what we would like now is – for you to approach key people involved in the…
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We attach an email complaint from METUP UK to CRUK (we have received a response this week – see below after the complaint) We are a patient-led advocacy group, lobbying for a better deal for…
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Dear social media companies, Your social media platforms are a lifeline to cancer patients, especially those of us who have advanced cancer which will kill us. My friends from social media mean the…
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Over recent years, ringing a bell to signal the ‘end of treatment’ such as chemotherapy or radiation has become common in hospitals and clinics within the UK (having originated in the US,…
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