All our latest news, campaign updates and blog posts from the METUPUK team and the wider MBC community.
SIS Breast Cancer Health Care Congress 2020 SAVE THE DATE FOR SIS 2020! It is our pleasure to invite you the SIS 2020 – the 21st SIS World Congress on Breast Cancer and Breast Healthcare. The meeting…
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Wim Hof Okay, so I’ve had metastatic breast cancer for five years now and I am definitely #BusyLivingWithMets. I was diagnosed with both primary and secondary at the same time (de novo). I did have a…
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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 trial almost 4 years later. I had been diagnosed…
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The below are links to details of introduction to trials and how to interpret trials. Lots of information and hard to understand some as its quite top level but worth sharing! #knowledgeispower…
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***SAVE THE DATES*** UK Breast Intergroup Meetings 1st May and 17th November 2020 Dear members, To help you plan your agenda for 2020, we would like to inform you that the upcoming UKBI meetings will…
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We thought you would like to hear about what it is like to work in metastatic breast cancer research. Here, we chat to Dr Rachel Eyre who works at The Manchester Cancer Research Centre about her life…
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METUPUK Member and ‘Patient Expert’ Madeleine Meynell wrote this piece for Total Health: The signs and symptoms of metastatic breast cancer can be non-specific and mimic other conditions. A study by…
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Early start Sunday 3rd November off to Glasgow for a 3 days conference (see collected data on the NCRI page). The NCRI is the National Cancer Research Institute so it was going to be an interesting…
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Founder of METUP-UK Jo Taylor appeared on ITV This Morning, discussing ‘end of treatment bells’. Jo has written a piece for the British Medical Journal on this, which gives more insight than the…
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I was invited by Ann Baker to attend the Secondary Breast Cancer Awareness Conference 2019 in Swansea. Unbelievably she is the ONLY Clinical Nurse Specialist in Wales! It was a long trek as I had…
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I was diagnosed with primary and secondary breast cancer in March 2015. The first couple of months were spent being directed by medical staff (they were amazing!). I had two operations, a corpectomy…
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METUPUK member Beth Roberts gives a really clear overview of the aims of METUPUK, and explains the importance of the red flag infographics, whilst attending an oncology conference as a patient…
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