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Alicia Keys And Stella McCartney Launch Breast Cancer Campaign

By Chidirim Ndeche
02 October 2017   |   3:00 pm
US singer Alicia Keys and British fashion designer Stella McCartney have launched a new breast cancer awareness campaign. Their campaign is aimed at African American women who have much higher mortality rates than white women. The designer, whose mother Linda died from breast cancer in 1998 at 56 years, will give a percentage of the…

US singer Alicia Keys and British fashion designer Stella McCartney have launched a new breast cancer awareness campaign.

Their campaign is aimed at African American women who have much higher mortality rates than white women.

The designer, whose mother Linda died from breast cancer in 1998 at 56 years, will give a percentage of the proceeds from a new pink lingerie set to the Memorial Sloan Kettering Breast Examination Center in Harlem which provides free testing in New York City.

Alicia Keys and Stella McCartney in their campaign

“This really resonates with me because I was brought up in Harlem and my mother is a breast cancer survivor,” Keys said in a campaign video. “We want to really encourage people to break the taboos and go and get checked.”

She said statistics have shown that African American women have a 42 percent higher chance of cancer mortality from breast cancer than white women due to lack of access to early screening and prevention programmes.

McCartney, in Paris for her label’s fashion week show, said, “Sadly I lost my mother to breast cancer 19 years ago. She didn’t meet my children.”

The designer has run three previous annual awareness campaigns fronted by models Kate Moss, Cara Delevingne and comedian Chelsea Handler.

Some of the money raised will also go to the Linda McCartney Centre at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital in Britain, which helps cancer patients and their families.

***AFP

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