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August 19, 2025

Why preventive mastectomy isn’t offered to everyone at risk

Ahmed Elbediwy, Kingston University and Nadine Wehida, Kingston University

Mastectomy is proven to prevent cancer, so why is access uneven?

Many stage 4 breast cancer patients say that they don’t relate with the pink ribbon. AnthiaCumming/E+ via Getty Images

October 5, 2022

Breast cancer awareness campaigns too often overlook those with metastatic breast cancer – here’s how they can do better

Rachel Kraus, Ball State University

October is awash in seas of pink T-shirts, balloons and ribbons in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. But this messaging fails to recognize people who are not cured of the disease.

Many women with metastatic breast cancer feel left out of annual ‘Pinktober’ awareness drives because these campaigns tend to focus on earlier, more curable stages of the disease. kali9/E+ via Getty Images

October 29, 2021

Breast cancer awareness campaigns can do a better job supporting women who’ve received a stage 4 diagnosis, instead of focusing only on early detection and ‘beating cancer’

Rachel Kraus, Ball State University

A diagnosis of metastatic breast cancer means having cancer for the rest of one’s life – a situation with very different needs and concerns compared to earlier stages of the disease.

September 17, 2020

Mastectomies have been performed for over 500 years – yet we still can’t talk about them

Alanna Skuse, University of Reading

What is it about breast cancer that has made mastectomy and its effects so hard to discuss for over 400 years?

Black women in South Africa are more likely to die from breast cancer than others. NS Natural Queen/Shutterstock

November 9, 2019

Demon disease, worse than HIV: Soweto women’s views on breast cancer

Emily Mendenhall, Georgetown University

Late detection of breast cancer means treatment is often drastic and frightening for patients.

A recent Canadian trial reports breast cancer over-diagnosis rates of up to 55 per cent, from routine screening mammograms. (Shutterstock)

October 1, 2017

Routine mammograms do not save lives: The research is clear

Anne Kearney, Memorial University of Newfoundland

October is breast cancer awareness month. Women should know there is no reliable evidence that routine mammograms reduce death from breast cancer, and there’s good evidence that they cause harm.

Advances in breast cancer research in the last decade has introduced new treatment regimes.

January 31, 2017

How the landscape has changed in the search for a cure for breast cancer

Ronald Wasike, Aga Khan University

The chances of surviving breast cancer are improving everyday due to advanced research and new treatment techniques.

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