Terminally ill woman with breast cancer attacks Facebook for removing the picture of her nipple she shared to help ‘save lives’

A woman who is dying from breast cancer has hit out at Facebook for removing a photograph of her nipple she shared to raise awareness of symptoms of the disease.

Rowena Kincaid, 40, from Cardiff, posted an image showing a rash around her nipple to make people aware that a lump isn’t the only possibly symptom of breast cancer, and it was seen by 72,000 in the first two hours.

But when she logged on later in the day, she found a notification to say the picture had been automatically removed due to the site’s anti-nudity policy.

An upset Rowena, who has secondary stage-four breast cancer, shared the news on her Before I Kick The Bucket page, which has more than 10,000 followers.

‘It doesn’t see what the reason behind it is, it’s just automatic,’ she wrote. ‘It can’t see that the picture I posted earlier, may actually save lives.

‘I’m obviously totally gutted, as it took a lot to share my picture with you, because I’m so body conscious, and fretted about sharing at all.’
Rowena, who was first diagnosed with cancer in 2009, has made a BBC documentary Before I Kick the Bucket, and uses her Facebook page to keep followers up to date with her condition.

She was determined to share the image because, before her diagnosis, she was unaware what signs to look for – such as inverted nipples, rash and puckering – and didn’t want the knowledge to die with her.

‘I wasn’t out to offend anyone. It looks like something out of a medical journal,’ she told The Independent.

‘Posting that photograph was the bravest thing I’ve done. It’s so personal; I was petrified.’

She also questioned whether the site would have taken down the photo if she’d posted a picture of cancer in her big toe to show what it looked like.

Following the removal of her initial post, she shared a new version of the photo with a smiley face covering the nipple.

Source:Daily Mail