Be confident that you know your body: I am a 51-year-old NHS nurse and 18 months ago was told that I had metastatic breast cancer spreading to my spine, lungs,
I’m a 51 year old NHS nurse and 18 months ago I was told i had MBC…
Wales update
As many of you know, our beautiful Welsh dragon, Tassia Haines sadly died in March 2024. Tass touched thousands of lives across the globe, with her informed, honest, humbling, passionate
Breast Cancer is the most diagnosed of ALL cancers worldwide…
We are very much minding the gap! Breast Cancer is the most diagnosed of ALL cancers worldwide. In the United Kingdom, Metastatic Breast Cancer is the biggest killer of working
DATA – Delivering Advancements Through Action
Delivering Advancements Through Action Imagine a metastatic (secondary) breast cancer community within the UK where everybody within it who has ever heard the words, ‘it’s incurable’, is counted and acknowledged
Data Collection for metastatic breast cancer…
Kat wrote this blog for Metastatic May but we feel it should be shared again for Breast Cancer Awareness Month as data is a major problem and something that really
Treatement lines and herceptin for HER2+ metastatic breast cancer
Any patient with metastatic breast cancer (MBC) will be familiar with the concept of ‘treatment lines’. Unlike primary breast cancer, where you undergo chemotherapy for a fixed time period, after
METUPUK Breast Cancer Awareness 2024 for metastatic breast cancer
METUPUK’ Breast Cancer Awareness Month campaign for October across the UK and on social media channels. Continuing the synergy with The Darker Side of Pink travelling campaign highlighting the 31 women a
Data collection for metastatic breast cancer, “we are only counted when we are dead” – Kat Southwell
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
Members of MetUpUK descend on parliament
Terminal breast cancer patients descended on parliament last week. Armed with over 70,000 signatures, they demanded change for the tens of thousands in the UK living with the killer disease.