Here we direct you towards a range of resources and support services to support you in navigating and living well with secondary breast cancer.
Sources of secondary breast cancer information & evidence
- Advanced Breast Cancer.net
- After Breast Cancer Diagnosis (ABC Diagnosis): Secondary breast cancer
- American Society of Clinical Oncology: Breast Cancer – Metastatic Guide
- Breast Cancer Now: Secondary breast cancer
- Cancer Research UK: Stage 4 breast cancer
- Living Beyond Breast Cancer: Metastatic Breast Cancer
- Macmillan: Secondary breast cancer
- Metastatic Breast Cancer Network
Support in my local area
- Breast Cancer Haven
- Breast Cancer Now regional events & meet ups
- Cancer Focus – Northern Ireland
- Cancer Support – Scotland
- Macmillan support directory
- Maggie’s Centres
- Tenovus Cancer Care – Wales
Online support groups
- Breast Cancer Now: Living with secondary breast cancer
- Macmillan: Living with incurable breast cancer
- Maggie’s Online Community
- Young Survival Coalition: Virtual Hangouts
Someone to talk to
- Breast Cancer Now: Email our nurses
- Breast Cancer Now helpline
- Breast Cancer Now: Someone Like Me email support
- Macmillan support line
Meet others with secondary breast cancer
- Breast Cancer Haven
- Breast Cancer Now: Living with Secondary Breast Cancer – Meet up groups
- Breast Cancer Now: Younger Women with Secondaries Together
- Maggie’s support groups
Listen to others’ experiences
- Breast Cancer Now Podcast: Claire on being a patient with secondary breast cancer
- BBC’s You, Me and the Big C Podcast
Support for talking to children
Employment & financial support
- Access to Work
- Citizen’s advice
- Fit to Work
- Macmillan: Financial Guidance
- Pensions Advisory Service
- The Money Advice Service
- Working With Cancer
Psychological support
- Headspace
- Mind: Self-care for mental health
- Mind: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
- Moodzone
- The NHS: How and where to access counselling
- The NHS: Find psychological therapies (IAPT)
More information on treatments
- Breast Cancer Now: Recent advances in secondary breast cancer
- Cancer Research UK: Cancer drugs A-Z directory
Page last updated: April 2020
