New Charity Launched for the most aggressive form of Breast Cancer

Thousands of women and their families are living with an aggressive form of breast cancer called ‘Triple Negative Breast Cancer’ (TNBC). Of the 1 in 8 women in the UK who develop breast cancer between 15% and 20% will have TNBC, which more often affects younger, premenopausal women, frequently young mothers, those from the Afro-Caribbean community and is also more often inherited, being passed on in families.

Unlike the more common forms of breast cancer, there are not yet targeted drugs specifically for TNBC, so patient’s treatment and experience differ significantly from other types of breast cancer.

For this reason, a new charity has been launched called the ‘UK Charity for Triple Negative Breast Cancer’, and has been registered by the Charity Commission in England and Wales (no. 1192952). This charity will focus solely on TNBC and initially concentrate on providing patients and carers with specific information about their condition. It will also raise funding for much needed scientific research to find better treatments and eventually, a cure for TNBC. Many families want to raise money in support of a loved one, particularly if they know it will be spent exclusively on TNBC.

The charity has been created by a family in memory of a dearly loved wife, mother and grandmother. They understand only too well what the experience can be like and wanted to pass on knowledge and information to help people with the same diagnosis.

Medical and scientific advice has been kindly provided by Dr Chris Twelves, Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Oncology, and Director, NIHR Leeds Clinical Research Facility. He is a Trustee of the Charity, and is ‘delighted that a charity has been launched that is specifically aimed at helping patients with TNBC’.

The Charity has produced its first leaflet on ‘Understanding Triple Negative Breast Cancer’, which can be downloaded from the website www.ukcharityfortnbc.org, where there is also much more information for patients, their families and carers. 

Donations to the charity can be made on the website.

UK Charity for TNBC, July 2021.