I am raising research funds for the Institute of Cancer Research, London, to help my friend Susan who has a specific type of breast cancer, lobular breast cancer. Lobular is the 2nd most common type of breast cancer, yet it is very different to the other types of breast cancer. It does not usually show up on mammograms as it usually doesn’t form a lump, it is diagnosed later at more advanced stages and has poorer long-term outcomes. Concerningly, Lobular breast cancer does not have it’s own specific treatment.

This is something the Institute of Cancer Research, London, can fix, but they need the research funding to do this. They have known lobular breast cancer that is diagnosed in 22 (mostly) women a day in the UK or 1000 a day globally is different for almost 50 years, so it is time to fix this & get lobular breast cancer its own ’specific' treatment.

To help raise some of this vitally important funding for ICR to address lobular breast cancer, my friend Susan Michaelis and I, along with a team of supporters are walking 20 miles from Horsham to the coast at Shoreham via the Downs Link.

Please can you support this vitally important initiative, to help address the forgotten cancer, ‘lobular breast cancer’.

There is more information available (including a documentary & short film) about ‘lobular breast cancer’ via the Lobular Moonshot project website, which Susan set up earlier this year to raise the much needed research funds for the ICR Lobular research project. https://www.lobularmoonshot.org/

This is important to me, not only to support research into lobular breast cancer for Susan but for me too. I had lobular breast cancer and I would like there to be a specific treatment plan should it ever reoccur. Lobular breast cancer is known to reoccur later than other cancer reoccurrences. Let's help the Institute of Cancer Research by funding research into a specific treatment.

If you would buy me a coffee/pint/lunch/dinner then add that amount to research.

Thank you, Melanie