Breastless

Clare Best

Women affected by hereditary breast cancer can carry a risk of up to 85% of developing the disease. How do they live with this risk, and what are their options?

As the only female in two generations of her maternal family not to have contracted breast cancer, poet Clare Best decided to undergo preventive surgery.

Poems from Clare’s sequence Self-portrait without Breasts and photographs by Laura Stevens tell a story that began as personal and became public, revealing the creative power each artist found in this challenging subject matter.

An article by leading cancer consultant Gareth Evans accompanies their work.

£1 from the sale of this pamphlet will be donated to the Hereditary Breast Cancer Helpline.

The production of this pamphlet has been made possible by support from EMPATHY Medical & healthcare communications.