On Friday 7 May 2010 the Melbourne Cricket Ground was host to 14,000 women wearing pink ponchos representing the number of women to be diagnosed with breast cancer this year. Women directly effected by breast cancer and their supportes turned up on mass to form The Pink Lady in the center of the MCG. It was a powerful reminder of the extent to which breast cancer effects so many Australians.
The Field of Women live was a curtain raiser to the AFL football match between Melbourne Demons and Western Bulldogs.
Breast Cancer Network Australia is the peak national organisation for Australians affected by breast cancer comprising a network of over 42,000 individual members. BCNA works to ensure that women diagnosed with breast cancer and their families receive the very best information, treatment, care and support possible, no matter who they are or where they live. BCNA is represented by the Pink Lady silhouette, symbolic of their focus on the women diagnosed with breast cancer and all those around her.
For more information about the Breast Cancer Network Australia and the Field of Women Live visit the BNCA web site. To see more photographs of the 2010 Field of Women live at the MGC go to www.AndrewG.com.au or www.bnca.org.au
