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Avoiding unnecessary breast cancer treatment

Complete an online survey about what parts of your breast cancer treatment you found the most difficult to inform research into how unnecessary treatment can be reduced.

What’s the study about?

As treatment for breast cancer improves, healthcare professionals can now better predict how well someone’s cancer responds to treatments. This will help them to plan treatment for individual patients.

Not everyone will necessarily need every kind of treatment, and people who won’t get much benefit from some treatments may be able to leave them out.

To do research into safely reducing treatments, researchers want to understand people’s experiences of their cancer treatments. If you could’ve reduced your treatments, the researchers want to know which treatments you would’ve liked to reduce and why.

Who can take part?

You can take part if you’ve been treated for breast cancer.

Why do you want me to be involved?

The researchers want to know what people’s views about their treatment are. This is so that they can design research studies to further improve breast cancer outcomes.

This will help to improve treatments and reduce side effects for people with breast cancer in future.

What will you ask me to do?

You’ll complete a short online survey. The survey will take 5-10 minutes to complete and is completely anonymous.

Become a Breast Cancer Voice

Would you like to hear about more opportunities like this one, as well as lots of other exciting ways to make your voice heard? Breast Cancer Voices are people whose lives have been changed by breast cancer. They use their diverse experiences to shape our work.

Find out how you can become a Voice today