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Checked your breasts lately?
We'll show you how. Checking your breasts is easy as TLC. 'Know your normal', so you can find any changes in your breasts as soon as they appear.
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Checked your breasts lately?
We’ll show you how.
Touch
Touch both breasts. You’re feeling for any lumps or thickening of the tissue, even up into the armpits.
Look
Look in front of a mirror. Can you see any physical changes to the breast shape, skin or nipples?
Check
Check any breast changes with your doctor. Even if you’ve had a mammogram recently.
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Pink Ribbon Bulletins
March 2023
An update from Sue, our nurse in Tairāwhiti, New Zealand's first ever Women's Health Strategy, our first webinar of the year, and a sneak peek of Pink Ribbon Breakfast 2023
Press release
02 March 2023
MPs back charity’s plea for improvements to breast screening
Parliament's Petitions Committee is backing our call on Government to improve access to breast screening, in the wake of Covid-19 lockdowns creating a massive mammogram backlog.
Pink Ribbon Bulletins
February 2023
Ahead of World Cancer Day, we are calling on Kiwis who have had breast cancer not to "suffer in silence" and to seek help for long-term side effects caused by their treatment. We are launching a new survey to help us get a clearer picture of this poorly understood topic, which we would really appreciate your help with.
Press release
03 February 2023
“Don’t suffer in silence”: Charity urges breast cancer survivors to act on long-term effects
Ahead of World Cancer Day (4 February), we're highlighting the issue of long-term side effects of breast cancer treatment, to gain more knowledge in this under-researched field.
Pink Ribbon Bulletins
January 2023
Happy New Year and welcome to 2023. We hope the year has got off to a great start. In our latest bulletin we share updates from the last month, including New Zealand's PantoCIN trial, the results from which will hugely benefit breast cancer patients who are on chemotherapy.
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22 December 2022
Summer advice from our specialist breast nurses
Our team of specialist nurses have pulled together useful tips to help you have a safe and enjoyable summer.
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