The Inflammatory Breast Cancer Network UK was founded by Caroline Ballinger whose daughter was diagnosed with IBC in 2011. Our charity’s purpose is to educate the public and health professionals about inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) and to promote and fund IBC research in the United Kingdom. We are a scientific evidence and data-based charity and we provide a support service for IBC patients and their family members. Integrity is one of The Inflammatory Breast Cancer Network UK’s core values, and we apply the highest ethical standards to everything we do. Currently IBC still has a survival rate of only around 50% and remains the most aggressive and deadliest of all breast cancers.
Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC) is a rare and highly fatal form of breast cancer that is not typically discovered by mammogram and often occurs prior to standard screening age recommendations for breast cancer. In the UK it makes up only around 2% of all breast cancers. It can affect both men and women. Although IBC has been recognised for over 200 years, many are still not aware of it. Our goal is to bring this orphaned disease into the limelight and encourage education and funding of research for this highly fatal form of breast cancer. We need to educate as many people as possible about this type of breast cancer.