And Then Came Breast Cancer - A Future Dreams Podcast

The drugs you take when you’ve had a breast cancer diagnosis can prolong your life by reducing the chances of your cancer coming back. But they can also come with some pretty unpleasant side effects- from hot flushes and fatigue- to pain and depression.

In this episode, Victoria speaks to women who’ve experienced a variety of hormone therapy treatments- and gets some advice and guidance from consultant medical oncologist Dr Fharat Raja, who specialises in breast cancer care.

Brought to you by the Future Dreams charity, "And Then Came Breast Cancer" is for everyone whose lives have been touched by the disease. You can contact us at FutureDreams.com for help and advice and our usual presenter Victoria Derbyshire is @VicDerbyshire on Twitter and Instagram. We welcome your ideas for future episodes.

If you have been touched by Breast Cancer – Future Dreams is here to help.

And Then Came Breast Cancer, is a podcast series co-produced by Factory Originals and 6Foot6 Productions

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It may sound obvious, but what you eat during and after breast cancer treatment is hugely important for the way in which you deal with the illness, and helps you towards the hoped-for recovery. In this bonus edition of the podcast, guest presenter Louise Court talks to nutritionist and dietician Jane Clarke who shares advice and ideas drawn from her more than 30 years of experience in this field.

Brought to you by the Future Dreams charity, "And Then Came Breast Cancer" is for everyone whose lives have been touched by the disease. You can contact us at FutureDreams.com for help and advice and our usual presenter Victoria Derbyshire is @VicDerbyshire on Twitter and Instagram. We welcome your ideas for future episodes.

If you have been touched by Breast Cancer – Future Dreams is here to help.

And Then Came Breast Cancer, is a podcast series co-produced by Factory Originals and 6Foot6 Productions

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It should be one of the happiest stages of a woman’s life when they find out they are having a child. But in around one in a thousand pregnancies cancer, in one of its forms, can rear its ugly and unwelcome head. The changes in a woman’s body during that time can disguise breast cancer symptoms. Getting a diagnosis then or soon after giving birth can be psychologically, emotionally, and physically draining-and frightening. But there is help out there.

In this episode, Victoria speaks to women who’ve gone through this, and to Pete Wallroth, who founded the Mummy’s Star charity after his wife Mair died of breast cancer just three months after their second child was born.

Brought to you by the Future Dreams charity, "And Then Came Breast Cancer" is for everyone whose lives have been touched by the disease. You can contact us at FutureDreams.com for help and advice and our usual presenter Victoria Derbyshire is @VicDerbyshire on Twitter and Instagram. We welcome your ideas for future episodes.

If you have been touched by Breast Cancer – Future Dreams is here to help.

And Then Came Breast Cancer, is a podcast series co-produced by Factory Originals and 6Foot6 Productions

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It would be impossible to do a series helping women when they get a breast cancer diagnosis if we don’t talk about dying-or the fear of dying. For many people that is a conversation they don’t want to have or it may be a conversation they don’t want to have right now- which is understandable. Others find it therapeutic and helpful to have frank conversations about it. If this is you, please listen to this special episode, where guest presenter Louise Court talks to three women about how they have dealt with this most difficult subject, from facing up to the possibility of the end of life, to grief itself.

They are joined on the panel by Dr Kathryn Mannix, who is a palliative care expert, and she provides down-to-earth advice and practical steps to manage such a traumatic experience. If this episode might be too distressing to contemplate, please listen to any of our other programmes, and return to this if -and when- you feel ready.

Brought to you by the Future Dreams charity, "And Then Came Breast Cancer" is for everyone whose lives have been touched by the disease. You can contact us at FutureDreams.com for help and advice and our usual presenter Victoria Derbyshire is @VicDerbyshire on Twitter and Instagram.

If you have been touched by Breast Cancer – Future Dreams is here to help.

And Then Came Breast Cancer, is a podcast series co-produced by Factory Originals and 6Foot6 Productions

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dawn Butler is the Labour MP for Brent Central and became the first elected African-Caribbean woman to become a government minister in the UK. Dawn arrived in Westminster via work on a market stall, a family-owned bakery ,and as a computer programmer. She also has breast cancer and was diagnosed last year, during Covid.

She has decided for the very first time, to share her story with presenter Victoria Derbyshire on this podcast. It is a frank, emotional and, at times humorous account of one woman’s experience with the disease.

Brought to you by the Future Dreams charity, "And Then Came Breast Cancer" is for everyone whose lives have been touched by the disease. You can contact us at FutureDreams.com for help and advice and our usual presenter Victoria Derbyshire is @VicDerbyshire on Twitter and Instagram. We welcome your ideas for future episodes.

If you have been touched by Breast Cancer – Future Dreams is here to help.

And Then Came Breast Cancer, is a podcast series co-produced by Factory Originals and 6Foot6 Productions

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.