My story: Claire on being a patient with secondary breast cancer

Season 2, Episode 14,   Apr 09, 2020, 04:00 AM

In a special episode of the podcast we hear from Claire, who has secondary breast cancer and has been recently involved in Breast Cancer Now's Secondary Breast Cancer Campaign. 

She shares the speech that she gave at the ABC5 conference in Lisbon last year. ABC is a major international conference for advance or secondary breast cancer. It brings together around 15000 healthcare professionals, clinical researchers and Secondary Breast Cancer patient advocates from around the world.

Claire speaks about the realities of living with secondary breast cancer and how the emotional, mental and physical effects of this diagnosis should impact how secondary patients are treated.