Vicki Durston, Director of Policy and Advocacy at Breast Cancer Network Australia (BCNA), shared on LinkedIn:
“Conquering Breast Cancer: Global
This October, Conquering Breast Cancer: Global launches – a film dedicated to breast cancer and the disparities that continue to exist across the world in diagnosis, treatment, data and outcomes.
A huge thank you to Mike and Sue Hill for bringing this story together, and to the clinicians, researchers, advocates and people with lived experience who have driven change over many years – including those who continue that advocacy today, and those we have lost along the way.
One of the strongest messages from this film is the power of showing up and coming together globally.
That was behind our advocacy in New York in 2025. Consumer leadership, alongside the Australian Mission to the UN and colleagues at King’s College London, pushed for breast cancer to be explicitly recognised in the UN Political Declaration on Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health led by our Australian DFAT team in NY. We thank them for trusting in us to deliver recommendations that were adopted in 2025 following the UN General Assembly.
There was a very deliberate reason for our approach.
If breast cancer isn’t explicitly visible in global commitments, it is far easier for it to be absent from regional and national priorities. Explicit recognition enables accountability towards a global commitment to tackle one of the biggest health challenges for women set to double by 2040.
It strengthens the platform to advocate for earlier detection, stronger health systems, equitable access to diagnosis and treatment, and better data – including understanding stage at diagnosis, progression to metastatic breast cancer, outcomes and disparities.
And this works both ways. Global commitments can drive national action, while what we learn and achieve nationally can contribute to progress elsewhere.
As Fatima Cardoso speaks to so powerfully in the film, there is hope when we come together.
We need to keep showing up – across countries, across disciplines and alongside people with lived experience – to keep breast cancer firmly on global and national agendas.
We won’t stop pushing for a future where where you live does not determine your outcome from metastatic breast cancer.
2025 UN Political Declaration on NCDs and Mental Health – WHO
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