Anonymous (she/her) - Arab Diagnosed in 2017 - Her2+ / Er/Pr- Stage II Breast Cancer I am a runner! I am curious. I am strong. My life changed pretty much overnight. I was at home reading on a Saturday night in April 2017 when by sheer chance my hand came to rest on a lump on my breast. The rest, as they say, is history. Or is it? Although my diagnosis was around five years ago now, the reverberations continue. The early days post cancer treatment were the hardest; I was sc

Meet Allyson Allyson (she/her) - Mixed Diagnosed in 2019 & 2020 - Breast & Ovarian cancer I am strong, I am resilient, I am being the best I can be. I have a diagnosis of Ovarian Cancer (OC) received in 2020, a year after having breast cancer. I have a homologous recombination deficiency, which is a bit of mouthful, but more commonly known as HRD. In the early days, I could never recall what it stood for, and for me became ' Hope, Resilience and Divine Healing' , the healing

Meet Amrik Amrik (she/her) - Indian Diagnosed in 2020 - Triple Negative Breast Cancer Cancer doesn’t define who I am. My courage is stronger than my fear. I am a survivor. 2020 was a year that I will never forget. The world plunged into chaos, as a global pandemic struck and shook everyone’s lives to the very core. In this surreal world, I found myself in a nightmare of my own, when out of the blue, I got diagnosed with Triple Negative Breast Cancer in January 2020. In a whir

Meet Leanne Pero Founder of Black Women Rising Leanne (She/her) - Black British Diagnosed in 2016 - Aged 30 - Stage 3 Breast Cancer The world I want begins within me. The way you speak to yourself matters. Never let your fear decide your fate. Check out Leanne's guide to rebuilding body image after cancer. At the age of 30, just months after my mum had finished treatment for breast cancer for the second time, I was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer. I had a double maste

Meet Georgina Georgina (she/her) - Greek Cypriot origin, born and raised in East London Diagnosed in 2019 - Breast Cancer I am loved. I can do it. I am worthy. In November 2018 I was diagnosed with breast cancer and within 9 months I’d had a lumpectomy, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Chewed up and spat out in a way which sent shockwaves through so many aspects of my life, my world post cancer has been many things: Confusion – Things change when you’ve had cancer and I strug