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Show your heart: for women living with breast cancer

Enjoy Arnott’s Tim Tam during May and help support women living with breast cancer.

The New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation has expanded its ongoing financial support of the Lymphoedema New Zealand Website.

The New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation (NZBCF) has been made aware of a breast screening issue that has emerged in Otago and Southland. We extend our thoughts to those women affected by these issues.

Lapatinib funding no great step forward

The New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation sees the funding of lapatinib (Tykerb) as a first-line treatment for HER 2 positive breast cancer as no great leap forward for women with the disease.

EARLY DETECTION AND SCREENING

Mammograms are very low dose breast tissue x-rays. They are used to pick up breast changes, in particular...

Men can get breast cancer too

More than 2600 New Zealand women will be diagnosed each year breast cancer - so will 20 men...

Breast Awareness Presentation

BE BREAST AWARE!
Janelle Aitken, one of our National Breast Health Educators, takes us through a concise breast health presentation...

Our Work

WHERE OUR FUNDS GO

The NZBCF is dedicated to fighting against the incidence and effects of breast cancer in our community. The money raised for The Foundation goes towards a number of programmes and activities...

NATIONAL COMMUNITY EDUCATION
The New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation holds FREE public seminars throughout New Zealand as part...

BREAST CANCER PATIENT REGISTERS
Since 2000 The Foundation has provided significant funding to the development and ongoing management of four New Zealand regional Breast Cancer Patient Registers in Auckland, Waikato, Christchurch and Wellington...