The Why:

My mum, like Christine, had got over breast cancer many years before and was given the all clear after having a full mastectomy and all the necessary treatment. Then a cough in 2017 sparked her to go to the Dr's, and she received the diagnosis she never expected to hear. The cancer was back, and it had spread to her bones. This was attributed to being secondary breast cancer.

She never gave up, and she never allowed having cancer in her life stop her living her life. She would never be cured, it was always treatment to treatment. Unfortunately she died in 2021, and a day does not go by when she is not in my thoughts

The What:

Secondary breast cancer is cancer that has spread beyond the breast and nearby lymph nodes to other parts of the body. Despite the best treatments available for primary breast cancer, an estimated 20-30% of women and men, will develop secondary disease, which is no longer curable.

While new treatments are enabling more people to live longer with this disease, more research is needed to improve the outlook for all secondary breast cancer patients. This is why I am riding and why your support will make such a difference.

The ethos of One More City is that the journey is never over; we are always progressing towards the next city, there are always more kilometres to do, more climbs to conquer and more challenges to face. This is akin to the reality of anyone living with cancer, especially secondary cancer, for whom the challenge is never over; there are always more treatments to endure, more scans to face, more side effects to manage.