Lobular Moon Shot Project Media Alert

London, 2nd October 2025 – Campaigners from the Lobular Moon Shot Project will take to Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park at 10am, on Sunday 12th October to call on the government to honour a promise made by Health Secretary Wes Streeting just five days after the campaign's founder, Dr Susan Michaelis, died from lobular breast cancer.

Standing on the historic ground where the suffragettes fought for their voices to be heard and where ordinary citizens have demanded accountability from those in power for over 150 years, campaigners will call on the government to deliver on its commitment to fund vital research into this neglected disease.

On 14th July 2024, Wes Streeting met with Lobular Moon Shot Project campaigners and told them: "Everyone is determined to honour Susan's legacy. I've asked our Chief Scientific Adviser Professor Lucy Chappell to bring campaigners and researchers together to plot a path forward to understand the basic biology behind this cancer, so that we can make a difference to the women affected."

Nearly three months later, after two brief online meetings, the government has gone silent. The last communication from the Department of Health was on 23rd August.

The Lobular Moon Shot Project is calling for £20 million in research funding to enable the Manchester Breast Centre to launch a five-year collaborative research project bringing together researchers from across the UK and Europe. The project aims to finally understand the basic biology of lobular breast cancer, a distinct disease recognised since the 1970s but still critically understudied.

Tristan Loraine, Lobular Moon Shot Project campaigner and husband of Susan Michaelis said, "When politicians fail to deliver on promises, we return to where British democracy was born, Speakers' Corner. We are standing on our soapbox because the government has fallen silent on a promise made in Susan's memory. Lobular breast cancer has been ignored for decades. We were given hope in July. We will not be silenced now."

Footage from the Speakers' Corner event will be released on Wednesday 15th October to coincide with Global Lobular Breast Cancer Awareness Day.

Event Details: 
Date: Sunday 12th October 2024 
Location: Speakers' Corner, Hyde Park, London 
Time: 10am 
Interviews available: Campaigners will be available for interview 

For media enquiries and interview requests: 
Kate Ford, kate@jumppr.tv, 077409 48065.