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No Good Reason Why Free Mammograms For 70-74 Year Olds Can’t Happen Right Now
Wednesday, 5 October 2022, 12:10 pm | New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation
The Government has an opportunity to show leadership for women’s health this October by immediately raising the free breast screening age, says Justine Smyth, chair of Breast Cancer Foundation NZ (BCFNZ). This follows the National Party’s commitment ... More >>
Budget 2022 Lets Down The Women Of NZ - Breast Cancer Foundation
Thursday, 19 May 2022, 3:22 pm | New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation
Justine Smyth, Chair of Breast Cancer Foundation NZ, said : “This Budget has let down the women of New Zealand by overlooking the enormous breast screening backlog that is preventing 50,000 women from getting their mammograms. It makes no sense ... More >>
Jacinda Ardern Artwork Up For Grabs To Raise Funds For Breast Cancer
Thursday, 13 May 2021, 9:35 am | New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation
A piece of artwork drawn and signed by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is going under the hammer to help raise funds for Breast Cancer Foundation NZ. The Port Waikato Pink Ribbon Breakfast Team has listed the framed drawing on Trade Me, as part of ... More >>
NZ’s Five-year Survival Goal Not Good Enough, Says Breast Cancer Foundation
Wednesday, 3 February 2021, 3:59 pm | New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation
Today’s World Health Organisation announcement that breast cancer is now the most common cancer worldwide is a timely reminder that cancer should be top of the Ministry of Health’s investment priorities, says Breast Cancer Foundation NZ (BCFNZ) on ... More >>
Pharmac Review A Chance To End Agonisingly Slow Drug Approval Process
Tuesday, 13 October 2020, 8:59 am | New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation
“The next government must end the unfair and outdated evaluation process that means Kiwis with terminal breast cancer wait years longer for the latest drugs,” declared Breast Cancer Foundation NZ (BCFNZ) today, as it marks World Metastatic ... More >>
New Zealand Is Now On The Right Path”: World-leading Oncologist Lauds Funding Announcement
Thursday, 5 March 2020, 8:37 am | New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation
Pharmac’s confirmation that life-extending new drug Ibrance (palbociclib) will be funded from April 1 for Kiwis with advanced breast cancer (ABC) has drawn praise from Dr Fatima Cardoso, the global ABC expert who visited New Zealand last year at ... More >>
World Cancer Day - What Not to Say
Saturday, 3 February 2018, 6:27 pm | New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation
World Cancer Day: unfortunate words - or silence - add pain to breast cancer diagnosis Breast Cancer Foundation NZ (BCFNZ) has released a video featuring funny ladies Urzila Carlson and Jackie Clarke acting out an awkward conversation between a newly-diagnosed ... More >>
Be A STAR & Walk for Breast Cancer
Thursday, 21 September 2017, 12:32 pm | New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation
Pink Star Walkers are getting ready to line the streets pink for breast cancer at the 2017 Breast Cancer Foundation NZ Pink Star Walks in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. More >>
Women over 70 one step closer to free mammograms
Monday, 12 June 2017, 3:41 pm | New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation
Women over 70 one step closer to free mammograms The Health Select Committee’s recommendation that the Government investigate extending New Zealand’s free national breast screening programme to women aged between 70 and 74 brings access to life-saving ... More >>
Nadia says Host a Pink Ribbon Breakfast!
Thursday, 30 March 2017, 2:32 pm | New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation
Registrations are now open for Pink Ribbon Breakfast, with celebrity cook and author Nadia Lim encouraging Kiwis to invite their friends to breakfast in May, to raise funds for Breast Cancer Foundation NZ. More >>
Otago newbie & Auckland “old hand” share research payday
Friday, 16 December 2016, 10:43 am | New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation
Two breast cancer researchers – one at the top of her field and the other a promising newbie – have been awarded 2017 fellowships by the NZ Breast Cancer Foundation. The fellowships are worth $80,000 each. More >>
New drug deal a bitter pill for 160 long-suffering patients
Tuesday, 6 December 2016, 10:08 am | New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation
Pharmac’s decision to fund pertuzumab (trade name Perjeta) from January 2017 for New Zealanders with advanced (metastatic) HER2+ breast cancer will be good news for patients diagnosed from the New Year onwards, but is a bitter pill for the 160 Kiwis ... More >>
NZBCF joins call for new radiation therapy treatment
Friday, 3 June 2016, 2:52 pm | New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation
The NZ Breast Cancer Foundation has joined leading doctors in calling for intra-operative radiation therapy (IORT) to be made available to Kiwi breast cancer patients in public hospitals. IORT offers patients significant advantages, while delivering the same ... More >>
New database and funding improve access to clinical trials
Friday, 20 May 2016, 10:51 am | New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation
Around the world, the 20th May is regarded as the anniversary of the first ever clinical trial1 and is recognised as International Clinical Trials Day. The NZ Breast Cancer Foundation (NZBCF) is acknowledging the importance of clinical trials in breast cancer ... More >>
Quarter-million in breast cancer grants
Thursday, 10 March 2016, 3:04 pm | New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation
Quarter-million in breast cancer grants to Christchurch Hospital will bring new treatments and improved patient safety More >>
Free seminar on breast reconstruction
Thursday, 15 October 2015, 9:44 am | New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation
The NZ Breast Cancer Foundation will host a free seminar on breast reconstruction after mastectomy next Tuesday October 20, 6:30pm-8pm, at Auckland University’s Medical School. The Breast Reconstruction Awareness Day (BRA-Day) event is open to ... More >>
Pink light for breast cancer – NZ landmarks light up
Friday, 2 October 2015, 10:55 am | New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation
Landmark buildings around New Zealand will light up pink from October 1, in support of Breast Cancer Month. From the Old Municipal Building in Whangarei to the Otago Settlers Museum in Dunedin, 21 local landmarks will join more than 200 other iconic ... More >>
Urzila Carlson is new breast cancer ambassador – no joke!
Thursday, 1 October 2015, 8:42 am | New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation
Comedian Urzila Carlson has joined the NZ Breast Cancer Foundation as an ambassador, inspired by her own youthful cancer experience to help get the message out to NZ women about the importance of early detection. More >>
New NZ research focuses on Vitamin C and breast cancer
Wednesday, 30 September 2015, 9:16 am | New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation
A new research study will analyse the level of vitamin C in breast tumours, and compare health outcomes for patients with different levels of the vitamin. More >>
Breast cancer campaigner Helena McAlpine dies, age 37
Thursday, 24 September 2015, 8:41 am | New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation
Staff and friends of the NZ Breast Cancer Foundation are tonight mourning the loss of Helena McAlpine, who campaigned through her own long and often gruelling battle with breast cancer to help save other women. More >>
