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  • 14October

    Charity efforts provide hope as family adapts to mum’s death

    October 14, 2016
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    Elliot Choueka is in his kitchen. The table is a jumble of paperwork, a laptop and his phone, which flashes and beeps every few minutes. Behind the father-of-two is a noticeboard full of his children’s achievements and reminders written in chalk to pack their PE clothes. He used to share the responsibility for remembering these things with his wife but today, as he prepares Friday night dinner, he is on his own.

    Mr Choueka lost his wife, Rosie, whose blog about battling breast cancer captured national attention, in June last year. Tomorrow would have been her 40th birthday.

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  • 15September

    Secondary breast cancer: Martin Lewis pays tribute to friend in charity awareness bid

    September 15, 2016
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    Martin Lewis is backing a campaign to raise awareness for secondary breast cancer.

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  • 21August

    Mail Online Health

    August 21, 2016
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    Secondary breast cancer kills 12,000 women each year in the UK. In 2015, it killed 38-year-old wife and mother-of-two Rosie Choueka.  Her final wish was for a charity to be set up to research the disease, in which cancer spreads … Continue reading →

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  • 19August

    Dad takes on cancer that took his wife

    August 19, 2016
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    This interview by Claire O’Reilly first appeared in The Sun on 12th July in the ‘me’ supplement. ELLIOT Choueka has launched the UK’s first charity to fund research into secondary breast cancer after losing wife Rosie, 38, in June last … Continue reading →

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  • 30June

    Charity launched in memory of breast cancer victim Rosie Choueka

    June 30, 2016
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    A breast cancer charity launched this week in memory of a mum-of-two who succumbed to the disease. Rosie Choueka died in June last year aged 38, after losing her battle against breast cancer. In her memory, around 200 friends and … Continue reading →

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  • 29June

    Before my wife died she asked me to set up a cancer charity. Here’s why

    June 29, 2016
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    On 16 June 2015 my beautiful, brilliant wife, Rosie Choueka, lost her brief battle with secondary breast cancer. She was 38 years old, a mother of two little children, a wife, a daughter and a hugely successful City lawyer. Rosie … Continue reading →

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  • 23June

    Secondary1st Founder On Fulfilling His Wife’s Dying Wish To Save Others With Breast Cancer

    June 23, 2016
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    Almost every charity has a poignant story behind it, inspired by people who demonstrated incredible acts of strength even when struck down by illness.

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