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…
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…
This article was first published in the Times (15 July) and is written by Chris Smyth. Thousands of patients with incurable cancer are condemned to second-rate care, a report today warns. Patients are ignored by doctors, suffer delays in treatment and only get help when they go to A&E. Progress in treating early stage…
On 16 June 2015 my beautiful, brilliant wife, Rosie Choueka, lost her brief battle with secondary breast cancer. She was 38 years old, a mother of two little children, a wife, a daughter and a hugely successful City lawyer. Rosie found a lump in her breast in June 2014. She had a lumpectomy and soon…
Under the patronage of Doctor Who, Peter Capaldi, Secondary1st has been launched in memory of Rosie Choueka who died from the disease.
“What better way to raise money for charity than give up something I love in memory of someone I love?”
Almost every charity has a poignant story behind it, inspired by people who demonstrated incredible acts of strength even when struck down by illness.
10-year-old school chums Alex Russell and Sebby Boxall took part in the St. Albans 1.5 kilometre Fun Run.
No challenge is too big for Craig Fisher. He has doggedly raised £12,000 for secondary breast cancer research by participating in a series of marathons, duathlons and triathlons.
Former Irish president Mary McAleese and first female Appeal Court judge, Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss joined the BBC’S Jo Coburn in the first ever Rosie Conversation.