What to Expect From a Mammogram

Mammograms are x-ray images of the breast. They are used to detect early signs of breast cancer before they become physically noticeable. Mammograms are offered to all women over the age of 50 up to their 71st birthday and they are invited for a screening every three years.  

Pumpkin Spice up your Kitchen: Baking with Pumpkin

It’s a cold autumn evening, you’ve carved into your pumpkin ready to place on your porch to ward off evil spirits, and an idea begins to possess you. Maybe it’s the smell of pumpkin cooking up ideas, maybe you can’t get enough of pumpkin spiced lattes or maybe you’ve got the Great British Bake Off on your brain. Here is some tasty treats to cook up in your cauldron before the spooky season ends.

Subverting Expectations for World Mental Health Day

I think World Mental Health Day is great. I know some people are of the ‘we shouldn’t need a specific day to talk about mental health’/’it’s pointless because everyone forgets about it the next day’ schools of thought, but I’m a little more optimistic. We have to start somewhere, and if that means talking about it for one day a year, that’s better than talking about it for no days a year, right? 

A Message From A Breast Cancer Survivor

Breast Cancer Awareness Month is a world-wide annual campaign, which involves thousands of organisations aiming to spread as much awareness as possible on the cause during the month of October. 

Remembering Sarah Harding

In August 2020, Girls Aloud star Sarah Harding revealed that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer that had devastatingly spread to other parts of her body. Just over a year later, it was announced that Harding had died.  

Yes, Men Can Get Breast Cancer Too

It’s often assumed that breast cancer only affects women, but men can get it too. It’s rare, but around 1% of cases of breast cancer in the UK are in men, which adds up to about 370 men a year.