A trip with triple negative breast cancer

  • Perspective

    A few months ago, I was invited to become a MacMillan Community Champion. It’s a voluntary role and it involves doing what I do anyway - trying to provide some support to people going through cancer diagnosis and treatment. I mostly reply to po...
  • Long tail survival

    It’s been a while since I have updated my blog, largely because I have been stable so have not had any developments to add. But I am conscious I engage on the forum with people new to metastatic TNBC, or new to TNBC, and often point them toward...
  • Hips

    It seems odd to be posting about a hip replacement on a cancer blog, but I guess many of us have a cross over of conditions.  My first slight awareness of hip problems was about three years after the birth of my first child back in the early 90s...
  • Continued remission

    The scores on the doors are 38 months since my mammogram recall, 30 months since being diagnosed as an ‘incurable’ with liver mets, 18 months since my last systemic treatment (when I had to stop immunotherapy), 1 year since my last i...
  • Time for a hip replacement?

    I had my right hip replaced in September 21 following a couple of years of denial that anything was wrong. I seemed to have constant issues with abductors, quads, hamstrings etc, but never admitted the hip was the issue. Family were telling me to get...