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Breast Cancer Care

Categories: Medicine

Charity providing support for women with breast cancer. Founded by Betty Westgate, five years after she was diagnosed with the disease. Originally called the Mastectomy Association; the name was changed to Breast Care and Mastectomy Association of Great Britain in 1987, and again to its current name in 1994.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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Breast Cancer Care

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Betty Westgate

Betty Westgate MBE, 1919 - 2000, a pioneer and campaigner for breast cancer s...

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St Thomas' Hospital

St Thomas' Hospital

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Major-General Sir George Joseph Hamilton Evatt, KCB

Major-General Sir George Joseph Hamilton Evatt, KCB

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Private Bertie Doe

Private Bertie Doe

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Person, Medicine, South Africa

War dead, Other war
1 memorial
A. J. Cronin

A. J. Cronin

Novelist and general practitioner. Born Dumbartonshire as Archibald Joseph Cronin. Studied in Glasgow and served in WW1 as a surgeon in the Navy. Practised in Wales and in 1924 was appointed Medica...

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1 memorial