Patient ambassadors
People with lived experience who choose to share, advocate and help shape the priorities of the project.
Profiles coming soon
A Life After Breast Cancer Surgery initiative
Beyond
the Scar
Making visible what breast cancer leaves behind.
Breast cancer does not end when treatment ends. Beyond the Scar makes visible the physical, emotional, social and practical realities that often remain hidden after breast cancer surgery.
Visual storytelling by Becky Yee · Beyond Pink
What remains invisible
Life after surgery is not only clinical.
The visible medical phase may end. The physical, emotional and social experience continues.
Beyond the Scar opens a more honest conversation about life after breast cancer surgery and turns visibility into empathy, support and action.
- Scars and scar management
- Body image and self-recognition
- Mirror avoidance and emotional trauma
- Clothing, dressing and daily care
- Intimacy, dating and relationships
- Reconstruction or no reconstruction
- Fear, uncertainty and identity
- Work, social life and practical recovery
Our purpose
Visibility. Voice. Action.
01 · VISIBILITY
Make the hidden experience visible
Show what can remain after treatment and surgery, beyond the clinical outcome.
02 · VOICE
Listen to lived experience
Place patients’ words, choices and needs at the centre of the initiative.
03 · ACTION
Mobilise people and organisations
Transform awareness into better support, options, conversations and care.
Patient voices
The experience belongs to the people who live it.
This space will bring together first-person stories about recovery, identity, body image, relationships, daily life and the things no one prepared patients for.
“
What is not seen is rarely understood. What is not understood is rarely transformed.
Beyond the Scar will collect and share patient testimonies with dignity, consent and purpose — not as an afterthought, but as the foundation of the project.
Patient voiceWhat changed after surgery that no one had explained?
Patient voiceWhat helped you recognise yourself again?
Patient voiceWhat should care teams, families and society understand better?
Visual storytelling
Seeing the whole person beyond the scar.
Through Becky Yee’s visual storytelling and the Beyond Pink project, the initiative shows not only what is visible on the body, but also the strength, vulnerability and complexity behind each experience.
Our ambassadors
People who help make the invisible visible.
Ambassadors amplify patient voices, open conversations and connect the initiative with communities, healthcare, culture, media and organisations.
Healthcare ambassadors
Professionals committed to recognising survivorship, identity and life after surgery as part of care.
Profiles coming soon
Community ambassadors
Creators, advocates, organisations and public voices who can help the message reach further.
Profiles coming soon
A shared initiative
Three partners. One shared commitment.
Fundación VISIBLE
Patient voice, campaign strategy, ambassadors, materials and public visibility.
Patient voice, campaign strategy, ambassadors, materials and public visibility.
Akira Science
Women’s health advocacy, scientific perspective, international connections and support for funding opportunities.
Women’s health advocacy, scientific perspective, international connections and support for funding opportunities.
Becky Yee
Photography, visual storytelling, portraits and testimonies that show the human experience beyond breast cancer.
Photography, visual storytelling, portraits and testimonies that show the human experience beyond breast cancer.
Join the movement
Help make visible what breast cancer leaves behind.
Join as a patient, ambassador, healthcare professional, organisation, partner, funder or supporter. Every voice and connection can help create a more human and complete conversation about life after breast cancer surgery.
Campaign materials
Download, share and activate.
Practical materials for ambassadors, partners and supporters who want to amplify the initiative.
Breast cancer does not end when treatment ends.
Beyond the Scar exists to make life after breast cancer surgery visible, understood and part of the conversation.
