A registered charitable trust, Hawke’s Bay Breast Cancer Trust was established in 2014. Our goal is to support anyone in Hawke’s Bay affected by breast cancer. We don’t receive funding from the Government or any other cancer organisation. Instead, to do our work, we rely on the generosity of the people of Hawke’s Bay and grants from trusts.
Do you know that there are over 2600 new breast cancer diagnoses in NZ every year — about 50 per week? In fact, more than one in ten women are diagnosed with breast cancer at some stage of their lives. And, it might surprise you to learn that men get breast cancer, too.
Thankfully, since the introduction of mammograms, breast cancer is very much survivable — as high as 95%.
To target breast cancer in Hawke's Bay, raising funds, awareness, education and research for our Hawke's Bay women and their families living with breast cancer.
