FORCE Calendar Features Women With Mastectomies
The non-profit organization FORCE: Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered is putting out a new kind of calendar showcasing women’s chests. Unlike other calendars famed for hanging in the back of garages and tool sheds, this one features women who have undergone double mastectomies because of breast cancer or hereditary BRCA2 mutations.
The novel photographs are published around the theme “Life is a Carnival” and come complete with surgical scars, feather boas, intravenous access ports, Mardi Gras beads, survivor stories, and clear views of both reconstructed and non-reconstructed breasts. According to FORCE’s founder,
“The models were selected to show a variety of different types of reconstruction and non-reconstruction…and not just amazing aesthetic outcomes.”
Sue Friedman
Breast Cancer Survivor & Executive Director of FORCE
Models and others associated with the project pointed out that patients who are contemplating a mastectomy often ask what their breasts will look like after surgery. They hope their pictures will help demystify the process for these women and reassure them that there is life following cancer.
The 2008 “Life is a Carnival” calendar sells for $15.00 and the revenues generated are used to fund FORCE’s education and support programs.
Source: USA Today
Related Links: Living Beyond Breast Cancer
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