Rebbitzin Tanya arranged a fabulous ladies’ Chanukah party. Everyone had the chance to decorate their own piece of ceramics before enjoying some wonderful refreshments and the thrill of a raffle with a huge collection of the most amazing prizes in aid of Secondary1st.
Alina organised a fantastic carol concert for the ladies of the Pink Petal Club at Elstree Cancer Centre. Everyone there also enjoyed wonderful mince pies and home-made pastries and contributed to a collection in aid of Secondary1st.
Dr Michaela Lesjak is our Secondary1st Researcher, working in Dr Claire Wells’ lab at King’s College London. Funded by a Secondary1st grant, Dr Lesjak will investigate how breast cancer cells break away from the primary tumour, invade into the surrounding tissue and then spread through the body to other major organs, where they eventually form…
“I would say to anyone else in my position, that we might be incurable but we’re still important. Take time for yourself” Charlie is 39 years old and lives in Camberwell, South East London. She is a property lawyer at Winckworth Sherwood and has 3 lovely cats, Charlie was diagnosed with triple negative stage 3…
NICE (The National Institute For Health and Care Excellence) has announced that two new breast cancer drugs, palbociclib (Ibrance) and ribociclib (Kisqali), are to be made available to NHS patients in England. These have been licensed as first-line treatments for post-menopausal patients with HR positive and HER2 negative locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer and…
After their fantastic fun night last year, Andrea’s family and friends held an amazing Halloween party in her memory to raise funds for Secondary1st. Everyone there enjoyed a great night, and they raised over £1200 to help make a difference and find more effective treatments for secondary breast cancer.
An entire school wore pink one day this month to raise funds for Secondary1st at the request of one of the mothers who is a secondary breast cancer patient. They also did face painting and sold cakes, many of which were pink, and unicorn poo.
Vanessa has written two hit novels and is now working on her third book. She has secondary breast cancer which has spread to her brain, liver and lung. In an article in the Daily Mail on 26th October she talks of her determination to live life to the full and let hope help to carry…
Sisters Imogen and Fran ran the Lausanne Marathon and managed to finish together in the amazing time of 3:38:51. They wanted to raise money for research into better treatments for secondary breast cancer in memory of their mother, who died from the disease a year ago. They were encouraged by very generous donations from family…
Sylvia organised a coffee morning to raise funds for Secondary1st in memory of a good friend who had died from secondary breast cancer. 38 people came and enjoyed the morning; they raised more than £400 for Secondary1st.
On October 9th Peter Capaldi, star of “Doctor Who” and Patron of Secondary1st presented a cheque for £75,000 to help fund pioneering research into secondary breast cancer. Professor Andrew Tutt of King’s College and the Institute of Cancer Research described the need “to understand how the process of metastasis hijacks normal biology” in order to…
Hannah took part in the Royal Parks Half Marathon on October 8th to raise money for Secondary1st. Research into secondary breast cancer to enable scientists to develop more effective treatments is a cause very close to her heart. She was one of 16,000 runners in the ninth half marathon covering 13.1 miles through four of…