Rebecca Charlton is the voice of cycling on Channel 5, as well as a cycling journalist and author, and in the summer of 2025, she was diagnosed with breast cancer while she was breast-feeding her second child. She’s had to navigate presenting on TV whilst dealing with the aftermath of treatment and coming to terms with her delayed diagnosis, and I can’t wait for you to hear her story.

Show Notes

Mummy’s Star are a fantastic charity supporting families through breast cancer in and around pregnancy - https://www.mummysstar.org/

You can follow Rebecca on Instagram here - https://www.instagram.com/p/Ddq3TtluoC5/?hl=en

Listen to her cycling podcast here - https://podfollow.com/the-cycling-podcast/view

And read her books about cycling here

https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/fitter-further-faster-get-fit-for-sportives-and-road-riding-mr-robert-hicks/caa62a1be43a9ea3?ean=9781408186534

https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/get-on-your-bike-stay-safe-get-fit-and-be-happy-cycling-mr-robert-hicks/b5891011e07b7044?ean=9781472904058

Did you know that after breast surgery your scars can become stuck and painful? This is where a good scar therapist can come in, and I wish I’d known this sooner after my mastectomy. Joana Pedroso is a trained cancer scar therapist who wants everyone to be able to move freely again and she explained why scars get stuck and what we can do about it.

Listener note - if you can watch his episode on Youtube or Spotify, there’s quite a lot to see, so you may get more out of it that way. But if that’s not possible I’ve done my best to describe it!

Joana’s instagram https://www.instagram.com/joanasbowen_scartherapy/reels/

Joana’s website - https://www.joanasbowentherapy.co.uk

Find a scar therapist (global) -https://restorescartherapy.com/

It’s the elephant in the room that no-one talks about when you have cancer - the fact that your sex life can also take a nose dive. But there is support out there, and this episode I’m speaking to Instagram’s @cancersextherapist - aka Zoe Yessian - a registered Mental Health nurse and psychosexual and relationship therapist, who was diagnosed with breast cancer herself two years ago aged just 35. We discuss how cancer can affect our libido and desire and what we can do about it.

Show Notes

Zoe

• Zoe’s Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/thecancersextherapist/
• Zoe’s website - https://www.thesextherapyspace.co.uk/
• If you are in London or able to get there, Zoe does bimonthly workshops at Future Dreams House - her next two are:
  • October 14th - Dating beyond diagnosis - https://momence.com/s/141372815
  • October 28th - Navigating Sex and relationships after cancer - https://momence.com/s/141372820
• Her next Breast Cancer Now workshop on intimacy and sex is at the Younger Women together day on 17th October - https://signup.breastcancernow.org/event/1ca854b5-a878-40ed-8640-de0c70d28994/2a3f4f45-f248-437a-a2d6-faa29474a78d?count=3

More information about sex and cancer

• Future Dreams - https://futuredreams.org.uk/category/sex-intimacy-hub/
• Shine cancer support - https://shinecancersupport.org/resource/sex-blog-1/
• Macmillan - https://www.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-information-and-support/impacts-of-cancer/sex-and-cancer
• Breast Cancer Now - https://www.survivingbreastcancer.org/breast-cancer-and-sexual-intimac
• Cancer Research - https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/coping/physically/sex/effects
• Find a therapist - College of Sex and Relationship Therapists - https://www.cosrt.org.uk/

Sex toys & tools -

• O-Nut / dilators -https://www.stressnomore.co.uk/collections/the-pelvic-people
• Liz’s favourite lube - https://www.yesyesyes.org/collections/yes-lubricants