From Amy Dowden to Kylie Minogue, these brave women have shared details of their breast cancer journeys and it's something we can all learn from this Breast Cancer Awareness Month
is one of the most common cancers in the UK impacting one in seven women. Over 80% of breast cancers occur in women over 50 and the risk continues to increase with age.
From Strictly's Amy Dowden - who is currently undergoing chemotherapy - to pop icon Kylie Minogue and the inspirational late Olivia Newton-John, these ten inspirational women have contributed enormously to the awareness around breast cancer, genetic predisposition to the disease and towards availability of treatment or by extending research. They have also pushed to normalise how women look during and after treatment.
Christina made it her mission to bring awareness to how young women can be impacted by breast cancer. In 2008 she told CNN: "I am a 36-year-old person with breast cancer, and not many people know that that happens to women my age or women in their 20s. This is my opportunity now to go out and fight as hard as I can for early detection."sadly passed away from breast cancer in 2021 at the age of 39.
She went on to say that she now eats a healthy diet of vegetables, fats and protein. "What I don’t do any more is have buckets of ice cream and chocolate brownies,” she added. She revealed she had also cut out alcohol. Julia went on to make a documentary with ITV called Julia Bradbury: Breast Cancer And Me which followed the presenter as she came to terms with her diagnosis and prepared for a single mastectomy.
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