COPES June NEWS 2026

We very much look forward to seeing you at our June Support Group & Coffee Morning on Saturday June 6th between 10.00 am and 1 pm.

Unfortunately, the Beading Workshop, scheduled for the afternoon of today’s support group, has had to be postponed. We will be rescheduling this event so keep an eye out for future dates in our newsletters and on the website (look in the ‘news’ section)

Want to come along to a Support Group Coffee Morning?

You’ll find us at the Ekco Social & Sports Club

                                               

Thornford Gardens, Southend              SS2 6PU

Here are our future dates:-

Saturday July 4th 10.00– 13.00

Saturday August 1st 10.00– 13.00

Saturday September 5th 10.00– 13.00

Saturday October 3rd 10.00– 13.00

Saturday November 7th 10.00– 13.00

 

We’re a charity, run entirely voluntarily, for any woman who has a gynae cancer diagnosis. Our Exec Committee and members have all experienced various gynae cancer diagnoses and treatments. We know what it’s like and try to make a dark time lighter. We give a bit of an emotional lift to each other.

As well as a monthly coffee morning support group, we organise occasional events such as our Dinner Dance; Afternoon Tea; Pottery Painting; Pre-Christmas Brunch with live entertainment; Music Evenings; Raffles and Quiz Nights. We’re always looking to be informative as well as fun.

Currently, we’re planning to bring informative discussions to our future Support Group Coffee Mornings. What the future might look like for gynae cancer patient care; looking at enhanced ultrasound screening for suspected ovarian cancer; developments in genomics and other interesting patient projects that COPES is hoping to be involved in.

GENOMICS: “Cancer is caused by abnormal changes to the DNA in our cells. The better we understand those changes, the more we can do to prevent, detect, manage and treat the disease. That’s why genomics – the study of all the information in our DNA – is such a crucial part of cancer research. Today, we have the technology and the understanding to offer genetic testing as part of healthcare. That means doctors can routinely identify inherited cancer risk factors (like BRCA mutations) in people’s genes and even match cancers driven by different genetic changes to therapies specifically designed to target them.”

One of our CNS nursing team, Liz, is involved in these developments and we hope she will be able to tell us more soon.