Katie started as Head of Music of a school in Maidenhead in September 2016; she was 29 years old. It was at the end of October that she discovered a lump in her left breast and went straight away to have it checked out. The doctors took all the right procedures but did reassure her…
Pauline lives in West Sussex; she is married to Carl and they have two children. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2013. “Let the tears come, as they will! Try to let people in, to help support you” My name is Pauline, I live in West Sussex and am married to Carl. We have…
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…
“My advice for friends and family is just to be there” Kim is 33 years old, married and has two boys aged 3 and 5. Kim was originally diagnosed with primary triple negative breast cancer in October 2014 when she was 30 years old and her youngest son was just 6 months old. She was…
“I just feel very lucky” Clare is in her fabulous fifties, she is married to her second husband Rob and together they have 3 teenage sons. Tragically, Clare’s first husband Andy died suddenly and unexpectedly at a very young age just 8 weeks after they got married, before they had even got the wedding photos…