Customer Stories

What does Breast Cancer Awareness Month feel like for someone who has had breast cancer?   Esther Shaw is fundraising for Macmillan Cancer Support (justgiving.com)   As Breast Cancer Awareness Month is fast-approaching, I’ll readily admit that I’m (once again) struggling with a complex mix of conflicting emotions. As someone who has been through the […]

My Mastectomy   2 years ago I had a mastectomy. Sounds simple really when I put it like that – like a routine operation I suppose. However, lets call a spade a spade, I had an amputation, I had my right breast amputated, that doesn’t sound quite so routine now does it?   I arrived

Diagnosis Day    On the 22nd April 2022, I sat in an examination room in hospital after being recalled to have a second ultrasound and biopsy (following an initial mammogram/ultrasound and biopsy two weeks before) at the breast unit. At that first appointment I was told there was a “suspicious” area in my breast that

From Unexpected Tenderness to Early Detection: My Breast Cancer Journey   Hi, I’m Sarah. 55 years old, married, and mum to 2 grown up children, nanny to 2 grandchildren with my 3rd one due in August!    I run my own mobile hairdressing business so I can work hours to suit me, as I often

My Journey Through Breast Cancer During the COVID-19 Pandemic   The COVID pandemic was a frightening, and uncertain period of time. We lost people we loved –  care homes and NHS staff & hospitals were under a strain never seen before. Contact with loved ones was forbidden, we had to stay in our own bubbles, work

Breast Cancer Can Happen at Any Age   I was diagnosed with Inflammatory Breast Cancer at age 31 in 2016, and underwent 9 months of intensive treatment with chemo, mastectomy, and radiotherapy. I am still on medication for another 2 and a half years.    I didn’t realise breast cancer could occur in women younger

Lumpectomy or Mastectomy? Finding My Path After Breast Cancer   Hello, my name is Kate and I am a breast cancer survivor who has just come to the end of 2 years of active treatment and recovery.   I was first diagnosed at the age of 50 in March 2022 with Grade 2 Triple Positive

Don’t Put the ‘Mute’ in my ‘Elation’   My name is Lana, I am 34 and live in Edinburgh with my husband, two children and cat. I am a breast cancer previvor, which is someone at increased genetic risk of breast (and often ovarian) cancer due to a mutation that runs in their family, in