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How do you reach more than 30,000 people with the vital breast awareness message?

For us last year part of the answer was by working with a Scottish Government health promotion campaign Detect Cancer Early. Our Breast Health Promotion (BHP) team delivered bespoke training courses to staff working on the campaign.

Equipped with the knowledge from our training course and backed by a hard-hitting...

Post date: 17 June 2013

A Strawberry Tea is the perfect excuse to catch up with loved ones this summer and indulge in a much-loved British tradition of tea and cake!

Last year Suzanne from West Yorkshire held a Strawberry Tea at her home. This followed her breast cancer diagnosis in 2011 at the age of 39.

‘My diagnosis left me feeling shocked and anxious about the future. I attended Breast Cancer Care’s Younger Women’s Forum and it was brilliant. It...

Post date: 14 June 2013

What do Breast Cancer Care volunteers do for us? Well, apart from delivering one-to-one support for people with breast cancer, breast health promotion, running HeadStrong sessions, keeping our hospital Information Points stocked, office and planning work of all sorts, raising funds, helping out with events…

With around 800 volunteers engaged in a huge range of activities, the roll-call goes on and on. Quite...

Post date: 13 June 2013

As a breast care nurse working mainly on our Helpline and Ask the Nurse email service, most of the enquiries I deal with are from women. That’s because nearly 55,000 women develop breast cancer in UK each year compared to around 400 men.

Being in a minority such as this creates problems on top of the difficulties of being diagnosed with breast cancer.

Men who have been diagnosed often report feeling very isolated: they may never meet another man with breast cancer; the hospital...

Post date: 10 June 2013

The people behind the numbers

We want every person affected by breast cancer to receive the best treatment, information and support, with all our work aimed at making that vision a reality.

We keep careful track of what we do so we can be sure we’re making progress, as you’ll be able to read in our upcoming Annual Report. Some of the numbers are impressive.

For example, in the past financial...

Post date: 06 June 2013