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Donate Now
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  • #DarkerPink
    • WHO REALLY CARES?
    • #DarkerPink Exhibition
    • #DarkerPink TV ad 2022
  • About us
    • Welcome to METUPUK
    • Who are we? Our Mission Statement
    • Why are we doing this?
    • Red flag #SBCinfographic
    • International Allies – The ABC Global Alliance
    • Our friends not forgotten
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Latest News

Upcoming Online Event: ECPC Virtual Metastatic Breast Cancer Roundtable

October 27, 2020May 12, 2023 metupuk
Screenshot of ECPC Website Header

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

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Conferencesconference, ECPC, European Cancer Patient Coalition., metastatic breast cancer, Policy Change, Quality of Life

In #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth (#BCAM), help @METUPUKORG by writing to your MP

October 26, 2020May 12, 2023 metupuk
Photo of a letterbox

We really need to raise awareness around what people with secondary cancer require, encouraging the debate to be placed upon the policy table. You can really help us by writing

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Patient AdvocacyCOVID, Data collection, Mary Huckle, MP Letter, secondary breast cancer

Statistics, Damn Lies and Statistics? Are you going to #WearItPink?

October 23, 2020May 12, 2023 metupuk

Today is #WearItPink Day headed by Breast Cancer Now: ‘They sat me down and gave me those three horrible words… I went into hospital on Tuesday at 9am and by

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EducationBex Lewis, breast cancer, breast cancer now, Cartoon, Emma Fisher, Pinkwashing, Statistics, Tassia Haines, Trigger Warnings

#IAmThe31: 31 Days? 31 Activities? 3.1 Distances? 31 People :-(

October 22, 2020May 12, 2023 metupuk
Pair of trainers in front of the number 31 painted on the road

It’s October, it’s still Breast Cancer Awareness Month, although Secondary Breast Cancer Awareness Day has been and gone… but we’re still very much living with that reality every day. The

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Social Media CampaignAwareness, Bex Lewis, Fundraising, iamthe31, Jo Taylor, Joanne Myatt, UProjects

Campaign #IAmThe31 and @abcdiagnosis feature in @JenniferSkin blog

October 20, 2020May 12, 2023 metupuk
Photo of Jennifer Young toiletries

Over the past couple of weeks, cancer specialist skincare brand Jennifer Young has featured METUPUK and its founder in a couple of blogs. Introduction to MetUpUk  ‘Changing the landscape of

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PressBlogging, iamthe31, Jennifer Young, Jo Taylor

Response to @MattHancock re ‘fast-tracking transformative treatments’

October 19, 2020May 12, 2023 metupuk
Image of man taking drugs from a shelf in the National Cancer Institute

METUPUK are looking for ACTION not just words on this new initiative that was released last week by Matt Hancock the Health Secretary. I’m delighted the UK will be teaming

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NewsAccess to Drugs, Department of Health, herceptin, Jo Taylor, Lesley Stephens, Matt Hancock, Policy Change, treatment lines

The ‘pink positivity’ is exhausting – when it ignores #IAmThe31 and focuses on #NoBraDay

October 18, 2020May 12, 2023 metupuk
Tassia Cartoon 'No Bra Day' - pink positivity standing on coffin of ignored secondary patient.

We went quiet, because the majority of us working on the #IAmThe31 campaign are undergoing continued treatment for Secondary Breast Cancer, are awaiting scan results, trying to work, and exhausted

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Social Media CampaignBusyLivingWithMets, Cartoon, iamthe31, Pink Positivity, Tassia Haines

TotalHealth.Co.Uk: What every woman who’s had breast cancer should know

October 17, 2020May 12, 2023 metupuk
Woman's Eyes in Screenshot in Total Health

METUPUK founder Jo Taylor, and member Madeleine Meynell featured in this piece in Total Health: Jo, along with other patient advocates, have come together to form METUPUK the only patient advocacy group

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PressInterview, Jo Taylor, Madeleine Meynell, TotalHealth

‘Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan: Bridging the Gap in Breast Cancer Care’: @ABCGlobalAll Conference

October 16, 2020May 12, 2023 metupuk
ABC Global Alliance Header

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 https://www.abcglobalalliance.org/events-initiatives/recommended-events/ Initial opening and

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ConferencesABC Global Alliance, Cancer, conference

Member @Diamondtrees11 asks: do we need a trigger warning for #IAmThe31 on #MBCDay?

October 13, 2020May 12, 2023 metupuk

This blog will probably upset some people. I talk about real life. In fact I talk about my life. My life with incurable, but always fatal, secondary breast cancer aged

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Member Stories, Social Media Campaign#BreastCancerAwarenessMonth, #NoBraDay, #SBCDay, #secondarybreastcancer, BCAM, BusyLivingWithMets, iamthe31, Kit D

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