Breast cancer awareness

  • HealthHarper’s Bazaar

    Breast Cancer Awareness Month: Best beauty products

    Bazaar rounds up the brands supporting this worthy cause From Harper's BAZAAR

  • HealthThe Independent

    H&M launches bra collection designed for breast cancer survivors

    H&M has designed a line of bras specifically to suit the needs of breast cancer survivors. The capsule collection was inspired by an H&M employee in the US who overcame the illness and was subsequently unable to find “affordable, fashionable and functional” bras to wear. 100 per cent of the profits will be donated to the American Cancer Society, who the high street giant hopes to raise $125,000 (£160,000) for to fund breast cancer research.

  • NewsYahoo Life UK

    Breast Cancer Awareness Month: Charitable beauty products to stockpile now

    October marks Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a time dedicated to making the signs, symptoms and treatments for the disease more known and a push for everyone to help boost funds to conduct research and help care for those suffering.As American actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus pointed out when revealing her own battle with the illness last week, one in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime. And it’s still the number one cancer killer for women in the UK.While raising money

  • NewsYahoo Canada Style

    This viral photo of lemons is helping women detect breast cancer

    “In the past few days, I have received quite a few private messages about a “game” going around where you post a heart, then you are secretly supposed to state it is for breast cancer awareness,” Erin Smith Chieze said in a poignant Facebook post that has been shared over 17,000 times. Chieze said that someone once posted a picture on Facebook of what breast cancer can look like (“not feel, but look like”) and that’s what helped her become more aware. In December 2015, she identified an indent

  • NewsJasmine Jones

    This 26-Year-Old Is Owning Breast Cancer Awareness With Revealing Blog ‘When Things Went T*ts Up’

    Last year Amber was diagnosed with stage one, grade two breast cancer. As a precaution Amber has opted to have IVF, “It is purely just a precautionary measure in case my body doesn’t bounce back once treatment has finished,” she explained. Over several posts this month Amber shared the details of her fertility treatment culminating in the brilliant news that her eggs were successfully harvested.

  • NewsSara Bliss

    Helping Breast Cancer Patients Deal With Changes in Their Appearance

    “When you think about it, the two things that make you feel most like a woman are your hair and your breasts,” explains Mary Aframe, the founder of the Women’s Image Center outside of Boston. “One of the oncologists I work with told me that he asks his patients ‘What was the hardest part of treatment?’ And 85% say losing their hair.” That statistic isn’t surprising to Aframe, who founded her business with the understanding that helping manage the radical changes in a woman’s appearance during c

  • NewsNoël Duan

    Bald Beauty Vlogger Aims to Help Cancer Patients [Video]

    Forty-year-old London resident Andrea Pellegrini has a YouTube portal dedicated to makeup tutorials — but her channel, Baldly Beautiful, isn’t about cat liner tips and new beauty finds. Her videos tackle beauty issues cancer patients face, from dealing with pale skin and watering eyes to going bald.  Pellegrini, a makeup artist who was diagnosed with breast cancer in September 2014 and launched Baldly Beautiful in February 2015, told the Daily Mail, “It definitely helped me get through chemo; it