Ah-Leen Rayner: Breast Cancer Foundation CEO on report finding Māori, Pasifika and younger women most at risk of breast cancer

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Feb 3, 2022 · 3m

Leehane Stowers was just 35 when she was diagnosed with breast cancer and felt scared and in the dark as to what her best option was.

"I had all these questions and was just being told no for everything, I didn't really have much understanding of what was going on."

The Auckland woman, who is part Māori and part Samoan, is part of a group of people a new report shows are most at risk of dying from the cancer - the country's third most common.

The research was included in a report from Te Rēhita Mate Ūtaetae - Breast Cancer Foundation National Register, titled 30,000 voices: Informing a better…