Make 2nds Count Blog
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Providing research, support, and education to those affected by breast cancer. Make 2nds Count is a UK-wide patient and family-focused charity dedicated to giving hope to women and men living with secondary breast cancer.
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In 2019 Make 2nds Count awarded it's first research grant to Dr Olga Oikonomidou, Consultant Medical Oncologist and Leader of The University of Edinburgh Breast Cancer Translational Research Group at the Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre. This grant was used to fund a 3-year post-doctoral researcher post, held by Dr Fiona Semple within Dr Oikonomidou's team ..read more
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What a busy year it has been in Research! Since welcoming our new Research Manager, Dr Sarah Thomas, we have completed our first research grant awarded by the charity, announced our largest ever grant and launched our first open call for research proposals to kick off in 2024 ..read more
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This year clinical trials was a key area of focus for our Education programmes, helping people living with secondary (metastatic) breast cancer to access the information they need to explore the option of clinical trials as part of their treatment pathway. Our Patient Trials Advocate service has really taken off this year ..read more
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Aromatase inhibitors are a class of drugs that can be used to treat hormone receptor-positive (HR+) subtypes of breast cancer1. Aromatase inhibitors can be used in the treatment of early HR+ breast cancer, but here we will focus on aromatase inhibitors in treating secondary (metastatic, advanced) breast cancer ..read more
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Make 2nds Count have had an incredible year of fundraising in 2023. As we look back at some of the amazing fundraising events we would like to thank all our supporters for all events big and small and for making it the year that it was ..read more
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We recently caught up with one of our ambassadors Marette, who's husband has signed up to take part in the London Marathon in April. We wanted to know a bit about Marette and why her husband has choose to fundraise for Make 2nds Count ..read more
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Next month sees the launch of one of our new fundraising challenges: Abseiling the Falkirk Wheel! Lianne from the Make 2nds Count Fundraising Team will be taking part in this epic challenge to raise money to help support secondary breast cancer patients ..read more
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For #TripleNegativeBreastCancerDay (Sun 3 March, 2024) we are shining a light on some of our wonderful members of the community who have a diagnosis of Triple Negative. Kathryn shares her story ..read more
Make 2nds Count Blog
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For #TripleNegativeBreastCancerDay (Sun 3 March, 2024) we are shining a light on some of our wonderful members of the community who have a diagnosis of Triple Negative. Mary shares her story ..read more
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Pembrolizumab, also known as Keytruda®, is a drug used to treat a variety of cancers1. In breast cancer, Keytruda is currently used to treat both early and secondary triple negative breast cancer (TNBC ..read more