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
• Breast Cancer Now: Glossary of terms
• 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

• Macmillan: Talking to children & teenagers
• The Fruit Fly Collective
• The Osbourne Trust

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