Around 55,000 women and 370 men are diagnosed with breast cancer every year in the UK, about 15% of these are diagnosed with lobular breast cancer, but what is lobular breast cancer?

In this month's episode, Maggie spoke to Darlaine Honey about her experience of being diagnosed with lobular breast cancer, the difficulties that she faced and her drive to find better management for patients with this type of cancer. We discussed whether it might be possible to use some existing radiotracers to look at whether the disease has spread to other areas of the body and how the disease is currently managed.

Breast cancer can spread to the bones and, although there are radiotracers currently being used to find these metastases, at the School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences at King's College London, we are looking at improving these tracers to get a more accurate picture of whether their are metastases and where they are. Dr George Keeling is working on a 'kit' which can be used to prepare one such radio tracer very easily and without the need for expensive equipment. I spoke to George about his research and about how his 'kit' is a little bit like instant noodles.

To find out more about Darlaine's story see here or here

This podcast was generously supported by the Public Engagement funding from the Centre for Medical Engineering at King's College London.