METUPUK update
METUPUK members have done amazing things in the last two years and continue to do so. Here is an update on the last two months: Founder Jo Taylor was due to have been in Berlin to present a poster…
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The Economist – Pioneering person-centred breast cancer care – Madeleine Meynell
At the End of May 2024 Madeleine attended an event at the offices of the Economist on Pioneering person-centred breast cancer care. This event was part of a wider project looking at care in Europe…
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Anticipatory Grief – Relationships and metastatic breast cancer – Jo Taylor
I first came across “anticipatory grief” whilst friends with Sarah Illingsworth, who had metastatic breast cancer and was a Trustee for Breast Cancer Now. She was bold and forthright and did not shy…
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#FightingMBCplatitudes – Uncovering insensitive platitudes: a survey of people with metastatic breast cancer (MBC)
Last Autumn, Jo Taylor founder of After Breast Cancer Diagnosis and METUPUK and Eva Schumacher from Mamma Mia, an online German cancer magazine, (Eva is a patient living with MBC), were asked to be…
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Drugs drugs everywhere, can you access ones that work? Kirstin Spencer
Here at METUPUK, we know drug access is a big issue for all metastatic breast cancer patients. There have been huge leaps and bounds made in terms of research, knowledge and potential treatment…
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METUPUK at the UK Interdisciplinary Breast Cancer Symposium
METUPUK (Metastatic Exchange To Unleash Power) attended the 2024 United Kingdom’s Interdisciplinary Breast Cancer Symposium in Birmingham, hosted by Breast Cancer Now and supported by numerous…
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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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Conference Report: ECPC Virtual Metastatic Breast Cancer Roundtable
We mentioned that the European Cancer Patient Coalition was undertaking a ‘Virtual Roundtable’. Bex Lewis attended the event (and contributed quite a bit to the chat, including questions about how…
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Upcoming Online Event: ECPC Virtual Metastatic Breast Cancer Roundtable
Some of our team are planning on attending this (free) event (later this week), run by the European Cancer Patient Coalition. *Moderated by Dr. Fatima Cardoso, President of the ABC Global Alliance,…
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‘Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan: Bridging the Gap in Breast Cancer Care’: @ABCGlobalAll Conference
Jo attended this Zoom and here are some of the bullet points from the recording which is now published at the ABC Global Alliance website below…
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‘Breast Cancer in Young Women’ Conference #BCYonline
#BCYonline: ‘Breast cancer in young women is a complex disease, occurring when these women are at the peak of their reproductive years, family life and careers. Being a somewhat rare disease, the…
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ABC5 Lisbon – The Global Alliance
Key Messages This was my first time at this conference which is held in Lisbon every 2 years and focuses entirely on Advanced Breast Cancer. Jo had been to the previous ABC4 in 2018. We attended this…
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