Latest News:
- We speak to Leanda Hoyland-Lynch, Rendlesham Community Radion, on how BRiC empowers women with breast cancer: https://www.mixcloud.com/RendleshamCommunityRadio/something-for-the-weekend-17th-january/
- BRiC speaks to 'The Psychologist' on how cognitive control can empower women with breast cancer: see here
- BRiC's latest research on increased depression due to threats to job security in women with breast cancer: see here
- BRiC's research on COVID damage to breast cancer treatment and its effects on anxiety and depression features in the Telegraph
- BRiC's award winning blog, Panning for Gold, in top rated breast cancer blogs 2020 as voted by @healthline
- BRiC on mental health and emotional well-being in breast cancer with Breast Cancer Now (May 2020) - over 28K listeners/viewers on facebook!
- BRiC speaks with Dr Tasha Gandamihardja, consultant oncoplastic breast cancer surgeon, on how to improve emotional well-being in breast cancer (June 2020). Read and Listen here
- BRiC features in the Birkbeck Annual Review (2018):"Empowering women with breast cancer"(pages 32 - 33)
- BRiC wins Birkbeck Public Engagement Award, 2019, for its outreach to women with breast cancer as well as its public engagement activities!! See here
- BRiC speaks to Breast Cancer Now about PTSD (2018). See here.
- BRiC in top two breast cancer websites in the UK (2018). See here
- Our recent research soon to be published in Psycho-oncology has received impressive press coverage since 13.04.18: At Birkbeck, The Daily Mirror, Yahoo News, Irish News, BT News, Breaking News, Evening Telegraph, Healtheo360, infoglitz, The Evening Express, The Press and Journal.
- Our members have blogged for the HuffPost:
Head of BRiC: Nazanin Derakhshan
Time becomes a riddle when living with breast cancer
Striving with fear in Breast Cancer
Cancer creates a new 'you': But can you recognise her?
My past, please welcome my future
The end of the beginning: Dropping the breast cancer bomb
Running against metastatic breast cancer
What a cognitive psychologist learned when she was diagnosed with breast cancer
Former Deputy Head of BRiC: Tamsin Sargeant
We need to keep talking about secondary breast cancer
Living with Lymphoedema after breast cancer
Its been five years since my diagnosis of breast cancer and I am only just beggining to move on
Cancer didn't make me a warrior
An open letter to any woman recently diagnosed with breast cancer
You have a week to help keep Kadcyla available to women with secondary breast cancer
Why we need Theresa May to understand secondary breast cancer
And more blogs by Tamsin: see here.
BRiC Member: Bonnie Fox
I don't look like I have incurable cancer and I certainly do not feel like I do
BRiC Member: Penny Rutterford
In Therapy - The emotinal legacy of breast cancer
BRiC Member: Mary Huckle
To mothers with breast cancer: From a mother with breast cancer
OCTOBER 2017
Ambassador Dr Caroline Humber (below left) joined the #NotSecondRate campaign trail with Breast Cancer Care at the Labour Party Conference in Brighton in October 2017. She spoke to Jeremy Corbyn about the fight for better services for patients with secondary breast cancer.
Member Sarah (above 2nd left) also attended the Labour Party Conference on the #NotSecondRate campaign with Caroline, where she had the wonderful experience of working with Breast Cancer Care highlighting the issues surrounding secondary breast cancer, and she met Eddie Izzard!
JULY 2017
Susan Quirke on 'How I climbed out of the pit of despair', with Cancer Research UK. Watch the Video.
APRIL 2017
Ambassador Dr Caroline Humber featured in a Sun online article reporting that tens and thousands of women with incurable breast cancer are being denied crucial NHS specialist nursing care.
BRiC member Alison Tait pleased at the approval of Kadcyla, read here in the Edinburgh News
BRiC member Bonnie Fox battles for Kadcyla, read here in Breast Cancer Now.
FEBRUARY 2017
BRiC member Alison Tait fighting for the NHS to approve Kadcyla, read here in the Daily Record
JANUARY 2017
Deputy Tamsin Sargeant featured in the Guardian discussing her BRCA1 genetic testing and how this resulted in her finding a half-sister she hadn't known existed.
BRiC member Bonnie Fox on the voice of secondary breast cancer and approving Kadcyla, read here on BBC news.
OCTOBER 2016
Deputy Vicky Wilkes attended the Conservative Party Conference with Breast Cancer Care at the ICC Birmingham in October 2016, where she lobbied MPs with the #NotSecondRate campaign and spoke to Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt and other government ministers about the fight for better services for patients with secondary breast cancer.
Vicky attended an event at the Houses of Parliament, again with Breast Cancer Care lobbying MPs, this time across all parties. Sharon Hodgson MP, Shadow Minister for Public Health including cancer care, showed a particular interest in her plight as she is a member of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Breast Cancer.
JUNE 2015
Deputy Tamsin Sargeant featured in Vita, the breast cancer magazine, discussing her genetic testing for the BRCA1 gene which brought her together with her half sister whom she had never met.
Vita Magazine featuring Tamsin