I wanted to “do my bit”

February last, I lost my daughter at the age of just 32 to secondary breast cancer, after only 14 months from the first breast cancer diagnosis. Having found out that this can affect men as well as women I wanted to help by telling others of my daughters struggles and what they needed to do…

Brighton to London Cycling Event

On October 14th a team of 12 from Bristows including partners, trainees and associates set off in the morning and spent nearly 6 hours cycling from Brighton to London. At the same time indoor team cycled for 15 minute slots on Wattbikes – they matched the road conditions by setting some slots to a steep…

Charity efforts provide hope as family adapts to mum’s death

Elliot Choueka is in his kitchen. The table is a jumble of paperwork, a laptop and his phone, which flashes and beeps every few minutes. Behind the father-of-two is a noticeboard full of his children’s achievements and reminders written in chalk to pack their PE clothes. He used to share the responsibility for remembering these things with his wife but today, as he prepares Friday night dinner, he is on his own.

Mr Choueka lost his wife, Rosie, whose blog about battling breast cancer captured national attention, in June last year. Tomorrow would have been her 40th birthday.

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Quiz Night

A fun-filled quiz evening was organised by Andrea Pellegrini, one of the “cancer bitches” and her friends on 17th September. Everyone in the packed hall enjoyed trying to answer the questions, with a much-needed break for a fantastic supper with many opportunities to win the huge number of amazing raffle prizes.

Mail Online Health

Secondary breast cancer kills 12,000 women each year in the UK. In 2015, it killed 38-year-old wife and mother-of-two Rosie Choueka. Her final wish was for a charity to be set up to research the disease, in which cancer spreads from the breast to other parts of the body. Secondary1st focuses entirely on raising funds…

Dad takes on cancer that took his wife

This interview by Claire O’Reilly first appeared in The Sun on 12th July in the ‘me’ supplement. ELLIOT Choueka has launched the UK’s first charity to fund research into secondary breast cancer after losing wife Rosie, 38, in June last year. Secondary breast cancer is when cancer spreads to other areas of the body, and…