MARIA CAULFIELD, 40 TORY, LEWES A nurse at the Royal Marsden hospital in London, where she is a research sister leading a team in breast cancer research, Caulfield is also an owner and shareholder of Lewes football club and a non-executive director of the local housing charity BHT Sussex, which works to prevent homelessness.
If you've been feeling guilty that you haven't done your bit for breast cancer by getting in on the bizarre #HoldACanOfCokeBetweenYourBoobs campaign, then don't.
Survival rates for other cancers, including breast, bowel and prostate, have gained ground after breakthroughs in detection, treatment and prevention.
Though she survived breast cancer, a secondary cancer was diagnosed in 2011.
And in the US, though breast pumps, vasectomies and artificial teeth are sales tax-exempt and tax-deductible medical care, tampons are not even exempted from sales tax in some states (including California and New York, two of the most populous states).
The pharmaceuticals giant Roche has been criticised in unprecedented terms by the government's drugs watchdog for refusing to significantly lower the price of a breast cancer drug whose £90,000-per-patient cost is well over the NHS's limit.
She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007, but even when she was undergoing radiotherapy she was more concerned about everybody else.
Beyond the pain and trauma caused by breast ironing, an extensive study conducted by the German cooperation agency, GTZ, showed that there are a serious number of physical and mental health implications: the most serious include an elevated cancer risk, the inability to produce breast-milk, and psychological problems.
Ironically, breast ironing, which many female proponents believe deters teenage sex, may be contributing to a significant number of adverse consequences.
I'm not convinced: the breast, though pleasant enough, is definitely duller than the thigh, which offers a multitude of sensory pleasures.
Women who go up a skirt size every 10 years between their mid-20s and mid-60s are at 33% greater risk of developing breast cancer after the menopause, a study of more than 90,000 women finds.
