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We’ve already raised enough money to fully fund 2 PhD students at the ICR! Over the next 3 years, our target is to raise a further £250,000 which will go straight towards our next campaign funding a Clinical Research Fellow!

Thank you all enormously for your support, together we are helping to defeat cancer.

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Secondary breast cancer is cancer that has spread beyond the breast and nearby lymph nodes to other parts of the body. There are around 55,900 new breast cancer cases in the UK every year, that's more than 150 every day (2016-2018). Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the UK, accounting for 15% of all new cancer cases (2016-2018).

Despite the best available treatments, it remains the second leading cause of death for women with cancer. While new treatments are enabling more people to live longer with this disease, the fact remains that only a small portion of breast cancer research funding is devoted to secondary breast cancer. This is why your help now is so impactful.

Christine O’Connell, who was diagnosed and treated for breast cancer in 2013, created One More City in 2017 when she and 3 friends rode from London to Paris in 24 hours to raise money for breast cancer support services. As she was training for One More City’s second fundraiser in 2018, Christine learned that her cancer had returned, and it had spread to her brain and bones. This is when her journey as a secondary breast cancer patient and advocate began. In the years since, Christine and her fellow One More City riders have led eight rides through seven countries, raising over £435,000 for secondary breast cancer research at the ICR. For this year’s European event, Christine and her team are riding from Pisa, Italy to Nice, France from 24th - 29th September – just under 600 km with about 9,000 m of elevation.

“When living with cancer, especially secondary cancer, the challenge is never over; there are always more treatments to endure, more scans to face, more side effects to manage. So, we hope you will support us in our journey of always pushing onward: in kilometres, in fundraising, and in the research.”

The riders taking part in the Pisa to Nice ride are:

Aki Muraishi

Andy French

Annalisa Sarasini

Barbara Faissola

Caroline Gronvold

Chris Clothier

Christina Lindquist

Christine O'Connell

Dan Dale

Denzil Rankine

Ela Glogowska

Ellen Hoyle

Gaby Stevenson

Helen Bridgman

Jacqueline Kamp

Jacqui Logan-Powell

Jerome Gridel

Jill Willis

Joanna Abbott

Kim Cable

Kerstin Langer

Lara Newell

Lyndsay Fitzgerald

Maria Bykovskaya

Mark Schmid

Matt Doman

Maxine Woodward

Nikki Francalanza

Pippa Burns

Peter Lunt

Rhian Denton

Sadie Fitton

Sanne Hitipeuw

Sebastian Pedavoli

Shona Hughes

Simon Baines