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How many people do you know that I have your hands up?

So I went to Brussels the other day, this doctor who's running a clinical trial told me

it's not mid-line cast no more since then I have spent hours and hours researching, reading

all the medical journals and supposedly online only 100 people have been diagnosed with it.

Hello and welcome to you me and the big C with me Deborah James, otherwise known as

Bale Babe, Lauren Mann aka Girlvests Cancer and Steve Fland, otherwise known as Steve Fland.

Good afternoon, we are three friends who all have one thing in common, we have a relationship

with cancer, we want to tell you about the highs as well as the lows, if you're new to

the podcast then we have covered a wide range of topics and they're all available in

the usual podcast places. You can get in touch with us to suggest future topics and let

us know your experiences by using the hashtag you me Bixie across all forms of social media.

Today we're going to be talking about rare cancers, this topic has been suggested on social

media many times by you guys and we feel it's really really important because it's all

going well, our sitting here talking about breast cancer or bowel cancer or the most common

cancers but if you're sitting there as somebody who has a rare cancer actually what does it

mean for you and what does treatment look like. So we're going to be talking to Kate Williams

who works at the Bixie and also Jack Morgan who both have different rare cancers. Then

later we're going to be picking the brains of Dr Paul Huang who's the team leader in molecular

and systems oncology at the Institute for Cancer Research but before we get into it should

we have a quick catch up. I think you should we've got a lot to catch up on.

We have them, we have a couple of main things. Couple of main things as you can hear from

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