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Here at The Primrose Foundation, we understand that finding out your loved one has breast cancer can be devastating.

Cancer is a disease that can affect many parts of the body, and the longer we live, one in two of us will now develop cancer.

As your breast CARE charity, we want to do all we can to help & support not only those directly receiving treatment for breast cancer but those around them too.

Finding out that you have breast cancer can be a real shock, it is natural to experience a range of feelings and a sense of disbelief.

Today we live in a world where many of us are just too busy to be ill.

As we start a fresh year, can we ask that if you don’t already regularly check your breasts, you make this your year to be more breast aware

We know it can be difficult adjusting to life after breast cancer treatment.

Is it that time of year again for you? Can you feel the dread and anxiety building as maybe your routine appointment for your x-ray or scan approaches? It is recognised that anxiety can increase when there is a test pending which will screen for, diagnose, or check for progression or recurrence of a cancer.

Men’s Health Week is an important time to raises awareness of health issues that affect men and focuses on getting men to become more aware of health problems, should they develop.

What is Mindfulness we hear you ask?

Here at The Primrose Foundation, we talk a lot about breast cancer and breast cancer-related stories, we write about coping with the changes to your body, life after breast cancer surgery.

Many of us enjoy being outside looking at the amazing coasts, rivers and landscapes we have in our region.

A cancer hangover is what many people say they feel like after their treatment has finished and they begin to return to their “normal” life aka life before treatment.

Whether your friend or family member is newly diagnosed or in the midst of treatment, you will want to do all you can to help.