'Help us move towards a future where everyone with breast cancer lives' - Your Letters: September 3
PICTURE FROM THE ARCHIVE: Here’s something you’d never see today. This picture from 1962 captures a churchwarden’s pipe smoking competition at a Wall Heath club. Women joined in with pipes charged with 3.3 grammes of tobacco. Mrs Patsy Smith, pictured left, kept her pipe going for 34 minutes.
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Last year at 34, I was diagnosed with breast cancer, and my world changed overnight. Surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy were some of the toughest challenges I’ve ever faced, not only physically, but emotionally too.
Attending Breast Cancer Now’s Moving Forward course at the end of hospital treatment was a turning point and the friendships and support I found there reminded me just how powerful it is to share our stories.
That’s why this October I’ll be proudly joining the charity’s Wear It Pink for a celebration with friends and family, raising money for Breast Cancer Now’s life-saving research and life changing support services. I encourage you to join me, and throw on something pink at home, school, work or with friends.
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the UK and no one should have to face it alone. Please join me on October 2. Sign up today at wearitpink.org/SignUp and help us move towards a future where everyone with breast cancer lives, and lives well.
Milou Katsikare, Breast Cancer Now
