Kenya : "Go away, and don't come back": Mum battling breast cancer writes moving letter to the disease : standardmedia

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Kenya : "Go away, and don't come back": Mum battling breast cancer writes moving letter to the disease

Kenya : "Go away, and don't come back": Mum battling breast cancer writes moving letter to the disease

Updated Thu, October 13th 2016 at 10:59 GMT +3[PHOTO: COURTESY]October is breast cancer awareness month and nearly 1,000 British women and men will die of the disease by the time it's over.But almost all of these deaths will be from secondary breast cancer when tumours spread to other parts of the body.To mark Secondary Breast Cancer Day, mum-of-four Lesley Stephen, 50, from Edinburgh, shares a moving letter she has written to her disease...Dear Breast CancerThere's a few things I want to say to you today I know you won't like.I'll never forget the day I met you.


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Funding lifts breast cancer survival rates

Funding lifts breast cancer survival rates

Skip Ad Ad Loading... x Embed x Share Lois Wilkinson with the Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition talks about raising money to fight breast cancer.Jason Minto/The News JournalApril Kloxin, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Delaware, won a $450,000 grant from Susan G. Komen for her work on breast cancer metastasis.(Photo: SUCHAT PEDERSON/THE NEWS JOURNAL)WILMINGTON, Del.— April Kloxin is part of an ever-growing body of researchers and clinicians making it their mission to outsmart breast cancer cells.


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Melbourne mum diagnosed with devastating breast cancer while on maternity leave

Melbourne mum diagnosed with devastating breast cancer while on maternity leave

A young mother who found a lump in her breast delayed the ultrasound for over a year only to discover the aggressive cancer spread to her lymph nodes.Amber Whalen, from Melbourne, felt the unusual lump in 2014 but ignored it until she was volunteering at a charity event to raise money for breast and ovarian cancer a year later.'I felt like such a hypocrite at this event, telling people to get checked, when it was something I had been putting off myself,' the 29-year-old told Daily Mail Australia.Amber Whalen, from Melbourne, felt the unusual lump in 2014 but ignored it until she was volunteering at a charity event to raise money for breast and ovarian cancer a year later.


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Tackling a problem like breast cancer is everyone's responsibility

Tackling a problem like breast cancer is everyone's responsibility

Wednesday was my sister Karen's 49th birthday.Sadly, she wasn't here to celebrate that with us.In early 2010 Kaz was struggling with terrible back pain – she saw doctors and was hospitalised several times for pain relief.We thought Kaz must be like mum, who has had debilitating osteoarthritis for many years.