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This International Lung Cancer Awareness Month, the Marie Keating Foundation is proud to launch The Breathless Collection—a capsule collection of clothes and accessories designed to replicate the early symptoms of lung cancer.
The Breathless Collection features a series of bespoke garments and accessories designed to physically replicate the hidden weight, restriction and exhaustion that people with lung cancer may experience before diagnosis.
With 2,740 diagnosed with lung cancer and 1,900 lost each year in Ireland, we urge the public: Don’t wear the symptoms of lung cancer. Get it checked. With early detection lung cancer can be treatable.
Key symptoms of lung cancer:
- Breathlessness
- Unexplained tiredness (fatigue)
- An ache or pain in the chest or shoulder
- A persistent cough that has changed, lasting longer than three weeks
- Coughing up blood
- Ongoing chest infections
- Unexplained loss of appetite
If you notice any of the above symptoms, talk to your GP
SHOES
Already feel like your legs are lead walking upstairs. You don’t need these shoes. You need to get checked by your GP.
If you also feel any of the below:
- Unexplained tiredness (fatigue)
- An ache or pain in the chest or shoulder
- A persistent cough that has changed, lasting longer than three weeks
Go to your GP. Lung cancer caught early can be treatable.
NOTIFY ME WHEN IN STOCK
TOTE
Does walking to the shops feel like a marathon? Like your arms are burning and your chest is too. You don’t need this bag. You need to get checked by your GP.
If you also feel any of the below:
- Unexplained tiredness (fatigue)
- An ache or pain in the chest or shoulder
- A persistent cough that has changed, lasting longer than three weeks
Go to your GP. Lung cancer caught early can be treatable.
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GILET
Do you feel like something is tight in your chest when you do a simple task that didn’t use to leave you exerted? Like your arms are burning, and your chest is too? You don’t need this gilet. You need to get checked by your GP
If you also feel any of the below:
- Unexplained tiredness (fatigue)
- An ache or pain in the chest or shoulder
- A persistent cough that has changed, lasting longer than three weeks
Go to your GP. Lung cancer caught early can be treatable.
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CUP
Some days does it take all your effort to lift your morning coffee? Like your arms are burning and your chest is too? You don’t need this cup. You need to get checked by your GP
If you also feel any of the below:
- Unexplained tiredness (fatigue)
- An ache or pain in the chest or shoulder
- A persistent cough that has changed, lasting longer than three weeks
Go to your GP. Lung cancer caught early can be treatable.
NOTIFY ME WHEN IN STOCK
SCARF
Do you feel like something is tight in your chest when you do a simple task that didn’t use to leave you exerted? Like your arms are burning, and your chest is too? You don’t need this scarf. You need to get checked by your GP
If you also feel any of the below:
- Unexplained tiredness (fatigue)
- An ache or pain in the chest or shoulder
- A persistent cough that has changed, lasting longer than three weeks
Go to your GP. Lung cancer caught early can be treatable.
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New treatments and medicines can potentially cure lung cancer when the disease is caught in the earlier stages, at Stage 1 or 2. Join us as we renew our call for the Government to introduce a national lung cancer screening programme.
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OUR AMBASSADORS
”While I had no respiratory symptoms, I would urge anyone, if you notice any changes to your health, any cough that won’t go away, just any change that persists and is not getting better or if you feel something is not right, please get it checked out with your GP and be as assertive as you can be, remember you are your own best advocate. Do not ignore it, as Lung Cancer caught in the early stages has a higher percentage of progression free survival.
Susan Leatham60, Dublin
”Even though lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths, there is very little public awareness around it and it is stigmatised. Raising awareness of the fact that anyone with lungs can get lung cancer, including young never-smokers, might help shift the narrative. We need more publicity, more funding for further research and improved treatments and ultimately more life.
Marina Wild40, Galway
”I am generally well except for breathlessness. Therefore, it is possible to live a reasonable life throughout a cancer journey with the help of magnificent doctors’ modern medicines. I was diagnosed 7 years ago and have been many holidays and enjoying life as I should.
Ted O'Driscoll59, Fermanagh
”Your symptoms might not feel valid or enough to someone else, but you are the best judge of your own body and I’m proof of that so go with your gut and don’t back down!! If I didn’t listen to my own body, I wouldn’t be here today so I hope my story can make people go forward with their symptoms and don’t back down!
Orla Sweeney39, Monagahan
”Without that X-ray things would for sure have escalated to a Stage 4 in a very short period and I cannot stress enough how important it is to catch cancer in early stages to get a better chance of treatment and full remission.
Christian Olberz60, Clare
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