“One woman’s gift to another.”
After being diagnosed with breast cancer herself, Kay Coombes from Somerset is knitting artificial breasts for women who have had mastectomies.
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The 46-year-old is working with Knitted Knockers UK to create the cotton prostheses that are popular in the US, but haven't yet caught on in the UK.
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Coombes had a lumpectomy and chemotherapy to treat her breast cancer in 2011 and, when she tested positive for the BRCA gene in 2013, she chose to have a double mastectomy.
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She discovered Knitted Knockers UK through online support groups for breast cancer survivors.
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