Breast Cancer

Angie's Choice

Jody Brettkelly | Posted 19.05.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Jody Brettkelly

There's no doubt now that Angelina Jolie is superhuman. Just four days after she had a double mastectomy she was back at work doing storyboards for th...

For Real Women, Scarred and Stitched, Consider Rucquoi's Take Over Rankin's

Imogen Clements | Posted 19.05.2013 | UK Entertainment
Imogen Clements

Ione's current aforementioned project is her most ambitious yet. 'Sanctae' - a Portrait of Secular Saints features 21 eight-foot portraits of female nudes, each of whom will bear a gold-leaf halo

Angelina Jolie Plans Further Surgery To Reduce Cancer Risk

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 16.05.2013 | UK Lifestyle

Just days after Angelina Jolie revealed she has undergone a double mastectomy to reduce her risk of breast cancer, reports suggest that the movie star...

Angelina Jolie as Inspiration

Sheila Hageman | Posted 15.05.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Sheila Hageman

I'm never influenced by celebrities. I would never consider going on a certain type of diet because someone famous did. But today I stand corrected. Today I feel moved enough to listen to a celebrity. To be influenced by her choices and her suggestions.

In an Age When It's Trendy to Be Ill, Angelina Jolie's Mastectomy Revelation Is Far From Rebellious

Brendan O'Neill | Posted 14.05.2013 | UK Entertainment
Brendan O'Neill

How daring, really, is Angelina Jolie's decision to write about her recent operation? Is she really rebelling against celebrity culture or conforming to it? I think it's the latter

Why Angelina Jolie's Double Mastectomy Resonates With So Many Women

Laura Fountain | Posted 14.05.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Laura Fountain

Angelina Jolie's personal account of being told she has a fault in her BRCA1 gene and decision to have a double mastectomy to reduce the risk of her developing breast cancer has struck a chord with many individuals and families.

Angelina Jolie Double Mastectomy: Why Do Women Have Preventative Breast Cancer Surgery?

The Huffington Post UK | Brogan Driscoll | Posted 14.05.2013 | UK Lifestyle

Angelina Jolie has spoken out about her decision to have a preventative double mastectomy. Writing for the New York Times, the star reveals that sh...

Cancer Risk Increase in Under-50s

Danielle Lowe | Posted 07.05.2013 | UK Universities & Education
Danielle Lowe

The rise is being put down to women taking the pill and having children later, though there are likely to be other factors contributing as well. Organisations are stressing for women not to worry about these figures, and for them just to keep checking their breasts for any differences in feel, size and pain. However it is not necessarily those things that will cause the most worry. instead, it is likely to be a bigger worry to younger people again.

Shock For 250 Breast Cancer Patients, Recalled After Concerns Over Junior Doctor

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 04.05.2013 | UK

Hundreds of women have been recalled for further breast cancer screening by a hospital over fears that a junior doctor failed to follow proper procedu...

3D Mammograms 'Find More Tumours'

PA | Posted 24.04.2013 | UK Lifestyle

Breast screening with 3D mammograms increases the detection rate of tumours by a third, a study has found. Scientists compared the results of ordin...

Coping With Cancer's Ugly Sister: Guilt

Laura Price | Posted 22.04.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Laura Price

Of all the feelings you expect to go through when you're diagnosed with this deadly disease, guilt is not top of the list. Yet almost all the fellow cancer survivors I've met since my diagnosis say they've felt guilt to some degree.

Pregnant and Living With Breast Cancer - My Treatment Story

Sonal Patel | Posted 31.03.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Sonal Patel

Questions were flashing through my mind. Who would look after my son, Rohan? What would happen to my unborn baby? How would my husband cope without me? I broke down and the cancer care nurse gave me a huge hug as I left with an appointment for scans and went home to tell my husband.

DNA Testing For Cancer 'Routine Within Five Years'

PA | Posted 28.03.2013 | UK Lifestyle

GPs could be routinely testing patients for their genetic risk of cancer within five years following a landmark study. The biggest investigation of...

Not So Great Expectations...

Jodie Butt | Posted 26.03.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Jodie Butt

Right now those highly positive expectations that everything will be fine, well they have evaporated. I am so over this C-monkey roller coaster. I want to get off. I want a cancer holiday. A break from all the crap in my head, a day when it's not in my thoughts.

"Thanks to Asda's Tickled Pink campaign, I have been able to access some truly wonderful support"

Jackie Woods | Posted 22.05.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Jackie Woods

I felt very honoured to be invited to a very unique event last week. After 16 years of fundraising Asda's Tickled Pink campaign was celebrating as they have raised a landmark £30 million for two breast cancer charities: Breast Cancer Care and Breast Cancer Campaign.

Breast Cancer Drug 'Not Cost Effective'

PA | Posted 21.03.2013 | UK

A cancer charity has expressed its disappointment after the health regulator said a new drug to treat breast cancer was "not value for money". In n...

Dear Baby Girl

Emi Howe | Posted 07.05.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Emi Howe

Now you're three, I'm still 33 and two weeks out of chemo. There's a way to go but the future is bright. I'm a good reason for people not giving up the fight with cancer - we're winning!

Dear Mum

Jenny Chilton | Posted 08.05.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Jenny Chilton

Breast cancer isn't just the disease of a 'friend of a friend' or a 'cousins friend' or even of a distant relative once removed. We're surrounded by people and their families who are affected by it. Real people, with real bodies and feelings and emotions that will change forever following their treatment.

Dear Mum, You Drive Me Mental But...

Jodie Butt | Posted 08.05.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Jodie Butt

When I was told I had breast cancer I walked out of the hospital feeling shocked, scared and broken. The first person I called was you. I can't remember a time in my life when this wasn't my natural reaction...

Making a Big Deal Over a Small Thing - Nipples!

Jodie Butt | Posted 01.05.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Jodie Butt

Saturday 16 Feb - Valentine's weekend for many, operation number four for me. This time as part of the breast cancer reconstruction they were going to tackle as much of the symmetry issues as possible and hopefully give me a new nipple - it was a pretty big day, who doesn't want a nipple for Valentine's?!

Is Breast Cancer Care In The UK Up To Scratch?

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 01.03.2013 | UK Lifestyle

An investigation is needed to see whether breast cancer care in the UK is up to international standards, experts have said. It comes after new rese...

Boob Tattoos, Five-Centimetre Soup and 66 Grays of Radiation: A Radiotherapy Diary

Laura Price | Posted 29.04.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Laura Price

Five-centimetre soup? I wonder, as I lie on my back on the radiotherapy machine, arms in clamps above my head and breasts fully exposed to the team of three female professionals and one young male medical student.

How Whittington Hospital Saved My Life

Laxmi Hariharan | Posted 27.04.2013 | UK Politics
Laxmi Hariharan

Today NHS managers want to sell off part of the Whittington site, cutting almost 570 jobs to leave the hospital with reduced maternity services, ward closures and fewer beds for the elderly. Why cut funding for something which works? At what cost is the government saving costs?

Facebook 'Removes Image Of Breast Cancer Survivor's Double Mastectomy Tattoo Over Nudity Violation' (PICTURE)

Huffington Post UK | Sara C Nelson | Posted 22.02.2013 | UK

An image of a tattoo on the chest of a breast cancer survivor is going viral on Facebook - because the social networking giant apparently kept removin...

Flat on My Back Waiting for Cupid

Jodie Butt | Posted 16.04.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Jodie Butt

With it being the fourth operation I know exactly what to expect now. I'm like a boob op pro. My pre operation habits and rituals will be the same and I know exactly how to prepare myself. For example, I know that I like to work from home the day before so I can have some 'me' time.