Denise Bates

For this campaign, I wanted to show the reality of secondary cancer. What a picc line looks like. What skin mets look like. Even my oncologist didn’t recognise it at first.

People see you out, see your makeup on, and say “Oh you look well – it can’t be that bad.” They don’t see the fatigue, the pills, hidden picc line and multiple complex wound dressings, the days it takes to recover from one outing. 

You wonder: how much more do I have to endure? It’s not always a death sentence though - you can live with this.