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How Make 2nds Count have Helped Me?The final installment of our series. How Make 2nds Count have helped me

Living with a secondary breast cancer diagnosis is both mentally and physically gruelling for patients and those closest to them. With a focus on quality of life, our support programme helps patients and families affected by this incurable disease by informing, sharing and offering practical advice & support.

Continuing our series How can we raise more awareness of SBC? Raise Awareness

We are proud partners and supporters of Walk the Walk's #MenGetBreastCancerToo campaign. Whether you've heard of male breast cancer before or not, it's important that we continue raising vital awareness of this disease and talk about the impact it can have on men too.

Continuing our series What helped with your diagnosis?

When were you diagnosed ? My original diagnosis was in July 2012 after a routine mammogram.

To help raise awareness of Secondary Breast Cancer, throughout October we asked patients to answer some questions about their diagnosis.Had you heard of SBC before your diagnosis?

There are an estimated 35,000 people living with Secondary Breast Cancer in the UK. Today is the only day which represents these Men and Women.

This October during Breast Cancer awareness month we want to raise awareness about the importance of research and trials for Secondary Breast Cancer patients. This is more important than ever in the current climate with charities raising less money due to the coronavirus pandemic and of course, understandably, a lot of medical research has been delayed but every second counts for patients with secondary breast cancer We are launching a campaign to support initiatives highlighting the importance of supporting trials and funding research that has the greatest direct patient benefit and quickest impact for patients.

It's official, Make 2nds Count are one of the partner charities for Walk The Walk’s “Men Get Breast Cancer Too” campaign. Breast cancer charity Walk the Walk has brought together a global group of charities, collaborating to spread awareness that Men Get Breast Cancer Too.

I was first diagnosed with primary breast cancer in May 2016 aged 44 after feeling a lump in my left breast when brushing my teeth one evening. I really didn’t think it would be anything sinister as I had had a clear mammogram in January of that year.

My name is Danielle I’m 36 and I’m a mum to 2 boys. Louis 14 and Charlie 11.

My cancer recurred (for the 4 th time) in October 2015 detected at an annual routine appointment at the breast clinic. I was scheduled for an excision on December 4.After the op the wound refused to heal ( the medics said this was because it was in the area where I had had radiation many years before when I first had cancer.) Each time it came back it was in the same area this time right in the centre of the mastectomy scar.

Make 2nds Count has donated over £150,000 to support a pioneering research project at the University of Edinburgh’s Breast Cancer Translational Research Group at the Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre. The University of Edinburgh has confirmed that an appointment has been made for a post-doctoral research position, fully funded by our donations with work beginning at the start of October 2020.

When were you diagnosed with SBC? I had a Provisional diagnosis on 3rd September then confirmed via histology on 10th September 2018.