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We’ve already raised enough money to fully fund 2 PhD students at the ICR! Over the next 3 years, our target is to raise a further £250,000 which will go straight towards our next campaign funding a Clinical Research Fellow!

Thank you all enormously for your support, together we are helping to defeat cancer.

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Secondary breast cancer is cancer that has spread beyond the breast and nearby lymph nodes to other parts of the body. There are around 55,900 new breast cancer cases in the UK every year, that's more than 150 every day (2016-2018). Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the UK, accounting for 15% of all new cancer cases (2016-2018).

Despite the best available treatments, it remains the second leading cause of death for women with cancer. While new treatments are enabling more people to live longer with this disease, the fact remains that only a small portion of breast cancer research funding is devoted to secondary breast cancer. This is why your help now is so impactful.

Christine O’Connell, who was diagnosed and treated for breast cancer in 2013, created One More City in 2017 when she and 3 friends rode from London to Paris in 24 hours to raise money for breast cancer support services. As she was training for One More City’s second fundraiser in 2018, Christine learned that her cancer had returned, and it had spread to her brain and bones. This is when her journey as a secondary breast cancer patient and advocate began. In the years since, Christine and her fellow One More City riders have led seven rides through seven countries, raising nearly £400,000 for secondary breast cancer research in the UK. For this year’s European event, Christine, and her team of 40 riders, will head out from Venice on 26 September, destination Rome. They will cover the approximate 600k over 4 days, facing gruelling climbs along the way.

“When living with cancer, especially secondary cancer, the challenge is never over; there are always more treatments to endure, more scans to face, more side effects to manage. So, we hope you will support us in our journey of always pushing onward: in kilometres, in fundraising, and in the research.”

This year’s fantastic One More City riders are:

Louis Amore

Patricia Bacon

Florrie Barber

Mary Benner

Jessica Berry

Helen Bridgman

Pippa Burns

Arelis Diaz

Matthew Doman

Eleanor Doody

Lyndsay Fitzgerald

Aleda Fitzpatrick

Christine Ford

Nicola Francalanza

Carolyn Greensmith

Caroline Gronvold

Fiona Horncastle

Rachel Hyatt

Jane Lauder

Elton Lin

Isabell Ludwig

Peter Lunt

Marta Malinowska

Karen Middlemass

Rachael Natrajan

Christine O'Connell

Padraic O'Shea

Steven Payne

Vickesh Raithatha

Denzil Rankine

Annalisa Sarasini

Karen Smith

Ian Tucker

Angela Twickel

Yannick White

Jill Willis

James Windle

Moritz Werner

Susannah Woffenden