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Marianne_BCNA
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6 years ago

Breast friends are vital when you’re diagnosed with breast cancer

Many people have told us that your whole world is turned upside down when you find out you have breast cancer, and it’s at that moment your support network becomes really important to you. Ma...
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kmakm
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6 years ago
There is a man in the campaign.

I also queried the lack of ethnic diversity and was told they tried many people of different ethnicities but cultural attitudes prevented them from saying yes.

Cultural attitudes to cancer are also an issue in the UK. I follow a number of women in social media in Britain who are working in the BAME (black asian and minority ethnic) communities to change this. It has medical repercussions also.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4782206/