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Breast cancer. I was just 10 years old when those two words trampled down the door to my perfect little world for first time. While so much time has passed since, the memory still sits raw in the [...]

Sadly my family is one that knows the devastating impact that cancer can have all too well. My Grandmother, Adele died from ovarian cancer when my mum was in her early twenties – I never knew her [...]

I knew something was not quite right when the nipple on my left breast became inverted, after all for 54 years it had not looked like that. I already had a referral for a mammogram and ultrasound [...]

Taking part in the Carman’s Women’s Fun Run holds a special significance for Claudia. In 2014, seven year old Claudia wanted to do her bit by raising money for Breast Cancer Network [...]

September 2012, the year that rocked my world. I was 36 years old and just heard “you have breast cancer” mutter out of my doctor’s mouth. I just stared at her, your joking I said, and I laughed. [...]

On the 8 October 2002, my Mum was diagnosed with breast cancer, a day after I was born. At the time, the tumour was too large to be surgically removed, so she faced a long journey of chemotherapy [...]

I’ve always enjoyed running and had previously done a couple of fun runs, but my world was rocked when in September 2016, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. The day before I found the lump [...]

I was a busy personal assistant in my forties when I was diagnosed with breast cancer in September 2013. I had started jogging (or plodding as I described it)with a girlfriend once a week about [...]

2015 – certainly not my finest year! I was a busy 35-year-old mum of two and working part-time when I was diagnosed back in June last year with triple negative breast cancer. Over nine months I [...]

I received my diagnosis in January 2015 on my 56th birthday. A different cancer in each breast. It wasn’t quite the birthday present that I had been expecting. The response to the question, ‘What [...]