Breast Cancer Foundation NZ
News & updates
Our latest news, press releases, blog posts, Pink Ribbon Bulletins & Pink Ribbon Press.
Press release
27 October 2015
Shortland Street star Jacqueline Nairn fronts first online self-check video
“Be breast aware.” “Check your breasts.” Such advice is heard often during October, Breast Cancer Month, but many women say they don’t know how to check their breasts.
Press release
04 October 2015
Urzila Carlson is new breast cancer ambassador – no joke!
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.
News
01 October 2015
Pink light for breast cancer – NZ landmarks light up
Landmark buildings around New Zealand will light up pink from tomorrow, October 1, in support of Breast Cancer Month.
Press release
01 October 2015
Despair or relief? A mammogram might be the difference, numbers show
This October, Breast Cancer Month, an emotional campaign by the NZ Breast Foundation will remind women that finding cancer early, through a mammogram, might mean the difference between relief and despair.
News
29 September 2015
New NZ research focuses on Vitamin C and breast cancer
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.
Pink Ribbon Press
Spring 2015
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News
23 September 2015
Breast cancer campaigner Helena McAlpine dies, age 37
Staff and friends of the NZ Breast Cancer Foundation are mourning the loss of Helena McAlpine, who campaigned through her own long and often gruelling battle with breast cancer to help save other women.
Press release
28 August 2015
Stacey Morrison says “Walk for the cause” – Pink Star Walk registrations now open
Registrations are now open for the Estee Lauder Companies Pink Star Walks in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.
Press release
25 June 2015
Breakfasts fund new research
Read about the latest research into aspirin and genetic testing made possible by May’s Pink Ribbon Breakfast campaign which this year raised over $1.1million from 2500 breakfasts held nationwide.
Pink Ribbon Bulletins
June 2015
Hope for Lymphoedema sufferers, family history FAQs, plus could aspirin provide a breakthrough?
News
26 May 2015
Total cost of private access to Perjeta cheaper for Auckland women
Access to Perjeta, a drug for advanced HER2+ breast cancer not yet funded in the NZ public health system, just got a little easier for Auckland women.
News
19 May 2015
Thumbs-down NZ on International Clinical Trials Day
Kiwis have nothing to celebrate this International Clinical Trials Day (tomorrow, Wednesday May 20), says the New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation.
Blog
20 April 2015
Pink Ribbon Breakfast for Research
Registrations are now open for Pink Ribbon Breakfast, with Lorraine Downes asking Kiwis to invite their friends or colleagues to breakfast in May, to raise funds for the New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation.
Press release
20 April 2015
Free Counselling Service Launched
Breast Cancer Foundation NZ has launched a free counselling programme available to women anywhere in New Zealand.
BCFNZ Counselling offers three free one-on-one professional counselling sessions to women at whatever stage of their breast cancer treatment they most need it.
Pink Ribbon Bulletins
April 2015
Pink Ribbon Breakfast for Mum, driving with your Pink Caps on, plus free counselling available.
Pink Ribbon Press
Autumn 2015
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News
06 March 2015
Laser treatment study a first for NZ
International Lymphoedema Awareness Day - March 6, 2015
Press release
11 February 2015
1000 Tees for 1000 Women
By the end of summer, 1,000 New Zealand women will be diagnosed with breast cancer - an average of eight women diagnosed every day.
Press release
04 February 2015
BCFNZ marks World Cancer Day with grants to improve knowledge and treatment of local cancers
Today, World Cancer Day, Breast Cancer Foundation NZ announced the winners of its research funding contest for studies based on New Zealand’s breast cancer patient registers, awarding six grants for pilot studies to researchers from Auckland, Waikato, Christchurch and Dunedin.
Pink Ribbon Bulletins
February 2015
Newly diagnosed patients to receive free counselling, insights from NZ Breast Cancer Patient Registers, plus Next Steps to wellness.
News
29 January 2015
Promising new advanced TNBC drug accessible for NZ women – at a cost
Results of a small but interesting trial of pembrolizumab (Keytruda) for advanced triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) were released in the USA recently.
Pink Ribbon Bulletins
November 2014
The Pink Caravan's South Island Adventure, survival rates here worse than Australia’s, plus pregnancy after breast cancer: advice for younger women.
Pink Ribbon Press
Spring 2014
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Pink Ribbon Bulletins
August 2014
Pink Caravan nurses on tour, help a sister out this October, plus a free book on life after breast cancer.