Tell us how breast cancer has impacted your life. We’re creating our next strategy – the plan we’ll use to guide our work over the coming years – and we want the experiences of people affected by breast cancer to be at the heart of it.
The Big Breast Cancer Survey is all about understanding your experience better. From the worries or grief that make it harder to get up in the morning to the anxieties, challenges or pain you live with all day, every day, until you go to sleep.
No matter what your relationship is with breast cancer, we’re listening. We know that when it comes to talking about the disease it’s not always easy. There’s often lots of things that get left unsaid. So this is your chance to help us to get an honest, unvarnished picture of the realities of breast cancer right now.
How do I take part?
We want to hear from people who:
- Are living with or beyond breast cancer
- Are supporting someone living with breast cancer
- Have lost a loved one to breast cancer
- Are at increased risk because of their family history
You can complete the survey now. It’s open until 16 October 2024.
Why we want to hear from you
The more people we hear from, the more we know. And the more we know, the more we can do to make sure everyone affected by breast cancer lives and is supported to live well.
We’re worried the UK is becoming complacent about breast cancer – and we need that to change.
While there’s been huge progress in diagnosing and treating breast cancer over the last few decades, it’s still one of the UK’s biggest health challenges. More people are being diagnosed than ever before, too many lives are being lost to the disease and the burden isn’t shared equally. And we know that having breast cancer can be a life-changing experience for people, during and beyond their diagnosis and treatment.
Unless we act now, the number of people diagnosed will continue to rise, thousands will continue to lose their lives to the disease and many more will have to live with the long-term effects of it. That’s why understanding your experience couldn’t come at a more important time.
When will your new strategy be ready?
Our next strategy will set out how we’ll work to improve the picture for everyone affected by breast cancer over the coming years. That means identifying about what the biggest challenges in breast cancer are, and how we can have the biggest impact.
To make those decisions, we need to hear from as many people affected by breast cancer as possible. We’ll then use what you tell us, along with input from researchers, healthcare professionals and decision makers to set out what we’ll do to change things.
We’ll be developing our strategy over the coming year. And of course, when it’s available we’ll share it with you and let you know how what you’ve told us has shaped what we’ll do over the coming years.
Have your say
Tell us how breast cancer has impacted your life and help us build our strategy.