Cancer survivor wants 400 Kiwi women to give her the perfect giftSUPPLIED/ Amber Arkell Arkell wants at least 400 women to check their breasts tomorrow as a 27th birthday present. Now she is calling on young Kiwi women to join her event Boob Check - 400 Women Needed. Her campaign focuses on young women because the number of diagnoses among women under 44 is increasing. Something like 80 or 90 per cent of [people diagnosed with] breast cancer don't have a family history of it." According to the Breast Cancer Foundation, 90 to 95 per cent of women who develop breast cancer do not have a family history of the illness.

Source: Stuff October 07, 2016 08:30 UTC