David had to postpone his plan to cycle 1000km in in thirty days through Singapore because of a health problem. Now he is fully recovered and feeling fit and well he intends to start again on July 1st. He is back into training hard and covered 36.46 km this morning despite the heat and humidity.…
This week marks the fifth anniversary of the launch of Secondary1st. In all that time we have been consistently amazed by the wonderful support we have received. This has enabled us to make five significant grants to research projects investigating different approaches to finding more effective treatments for secondary breast cancer; they can be found…
Each member of the team from JH Mechanical Services has been challenged to walk or run 500 miles in the seven months between the beginning of April and the end of October to raise money for Secondary1st. Heather completed her 500 miles in less than eleven weeks. Then last weekend she and her friend Fiona…
He planned to cycle 1000km in thirty days in the heat and humidity of Singapore to raise money for Secondary1st. In the first two days he covered more than 80 km so he was well on track to complete his challenge. Then a sudden flare-up of a health issue meant that David had to have…
A drug trial for Olaparib, also known as Lynparza, has shown good results for women with breast cancer who have faulty variants in BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes. In the trial 85.9% of women given Olaparib for one year after the end of treatment showed no return of the cancer for three years, compared with77.1% of…