What we do

Where your money goes

Our core strategies

We fund 3 core strategies around breast cancer and are active in communities across New Zealand

Awareness & Education

Awareness & Education

 Support

Support

 Research & Medical

Research & medical

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Breast cancer mortality rate drop over the past 23 years

Future progress relies on your donations. Help us reach New Zealanders with early detection education, fund critical research & provide support for those with breast cancer. Together we can save more lives.
Reference: Breast cancer deaths per 100,000 women
1990: 31.2 / 2013: 17.7 -- Ministry of Health

Income allocation

How your funds get allocated

  • Research including the Breast Cancer Patient registers and critical studies to improve survivorship.
  • Education & awareness in communities so more breast cancers are detected early and lives saved.
  • Support for women with breast cancer including an 0800 advice line, in home care, counselling and rehab services following surgery.
  • Project reserves to ensure long term programmes can be sustained and new opportunities actioned.
  • Admin
  • Fundraising

Research

  • Parry Guilford is developing a blood test that can detect breast cancer growth without the need for expensive scans.
  • We funded the development of Mepitel Film - a lining to cover the breast that prevents radiation burns during treatment.
  • Nuala Helsby is developing a new test to identify which participants will suffer from life-threatening side-effects on capecitabine, a common treatment for advanced breast cancer patients.
  • We've invested $500,000 in a five-year partnership with Ferrier Research Institute to develop a breast cancer vaccine - a simple injection that can stop cancer from spreading and becoming fatal.

Education & Awareness

  • We’ve taught 13,000 women how to check their breasts using our online video.
  • 266,000 educational resources distributed last year alone.
  • The Pink Caravan visits 33 small towns every year to talk to locals about lifestyle, family risk and breast health.
  • 12,675 km travelled by the Pink Caravan in the past two years to talk to women all around New Zealand about lifestyle, family risk and breast health.

Support

  • 1,883 conversations between patients on mybc, our online breast cancer community, since it started in October 2016.
  • Over 500 counselling sessions funded in the last two years.

Like to help out?

We're a not-for-profit charitable trust so it's your generosity that keeps our education and support programmes going. Your donation can make a difference.