Articles filed under Living with MBC.
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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Just shy of six years ago I was diagnosed with Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC). Rare with a “high fatality rate and difficult to treat” is what I learnt in the first few weeks. Make your peace that…
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When D-Day’s DE NOVO My name is Sue, I’m a wife, a mum, a nanny, a daughter, a friend, a Metastatic Breast Cancer patient, and an advocate. My breast cancer diagnosis, back in April 2021 at the age…
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As mothers, we have a strong biological urge to protect our offspring. To protect them and keep them safe from harm. That urge starts at their birth and continues as they grow from vulnerable…
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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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My lymphoedema started very abruptly. One night, I developed unbelievably bad pain in my arm and shoulder. It was awful. I showered, tried to rub it better. When I went to bed, I stretched both arms…
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Others reaction to my cancer. It’s the reaction of others that really gets me. It’s like you have an infectious disease sometimes; people avoid you in the shops, they don’t call as often as they once…
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I have always participated in some kind of form of physical activity. I was a gymnast when I was young, loved the fact I could walk on my hands, do the splits, back flips etc. When I was at school, I…
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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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In April 2021, when I was told that I had de novo (straight to Stage 4) metastatic breast cancer, this rocked our world as a family and changed our lives forever. We were in shock, we were in…
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We had all plunged into a big black hole of despair in the days which followed my sister Helen’s metastatic breast cancer (MBC) diagnosis. Two and a half years on and now on her second line of…
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