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Articles

The Progressive Magazine - Article on Aesthetic Flat Closure — **The Movement to Go Flat**
Eleanor J. Bader
March 12, 2021

VeryWell Health - Article on Aesthetic Flat Closure — **More Breast Cancer Patients Opting Out of Reconstructive Surgery**
Rachel Murphy
January 15, 2021

**How Sexism in Medicine is Hurting Breast Cancer Survivors**
Catherine Guthrie, Cosmopolitan Magazine
September 06, 2018

Yahoo! Life article 2020 aesthetic flat closure advocacy going flat after mastectomy valid beautiful - Shay Sharpe flat happy flowers — **Breast cancer survivors make strides in showing the world that ‘going flat’ after mastectomy is ‘both beautiful and valid’**
Beth Greenfield
October 07, 2020

**Breast Cancer Patients Opting to “Go Flat” After Mastectomy**
Patient Power
May 18, 2020

**She Chose To ‘Go Flat’ And Wants Other Breast Cancer Survivors To Know They Can Too**
Rachel D. Cohen, NPR
November 02, 2018

**One Woman’s Story Can Change the World**
Catherine Guthrie
September 19, 2018

**Breast cancer survivor fights Cleveland Clinic over surgery results**
Sara Goldenberg, Channel 19 News
June 21, 2018

**Topless protest alleges malpractice over breast-cancer surgery: ‘Paternalism at its finest’**
Beth Greenfield, Yahoo News
September 09, 2018

**Cancer survivor stages a topless protest as she accuses her surgeon of IGNORING her wishes for a flat chest after a mastectomy, leaving her with unwanted flaps of skin instead**
Clemence Mcallon, Daily Mail
September 10, 2019

**Breast cancer patients’ wishes are being ignored by their surgeons — often while they’re unconscious**
Women in the World
September 10, 2018

Videos

**Breast cancer patient opens up about alleged malpractice in surgery**
Today Show with Stephanie Gosk
October 02, 2018

**Breast cancer survivor fights Cleveland Clinic over surgery results**
Sara Goldenberg, Channel 19 News
June 21, 2018
**Part 1**
**Part 2**

Podcasts

**ART Podcast (Mastectomy Tattoos**)
July 29, 2020
Stacie-Rae Weir

**FLAT is where it’s at**
February 19. 2020
Stephanie Astalos-Jones

**Your Killer Life**
July 31, 2020
Tammey Grable-Woodford

**FLAT is where it’s at**
April 17, 2019
Stephanie Astalos-Jones

**Behind the Pink Ribbon**
October 15, 2019
Melissa Adams

**Mind Bloom Podcast: NPOAS’ Devorah Vester on Going Flat (Aesthetic Flat Closure)**
October 29, 2020
Devorah Vester Borenstein

Guest Blogs and Features

**Optimal Surgical Outcomes When Choosing Flat Closure after Mastectomy**
DiepC Foundation
Terri Coutee
October 10, 2020

Guest post NCCS NPOAS Founder Kim Bowles advocating for aesthetic flat closure choosing flat after mastectomy — **Advocating for Women Who Choose to Go Flat After Mastectomy**
National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship
September 10, 2020

Flat denial - Kimberly Bowles tells her story - aesthetic flat closure advocacy to put flat on the menu — **Flat Denial**
Surviving Breast Cancer.org
October 07, 2020

Aesthetic flat closure advocacy SHARE Kim Bowles Jersi Baker Dr. Yara Robertson — **Know Your Options: Aesthetic Flat Closure**
SHARE Cancer Support Webinar
October 11, 2020

**Going Flat: Your Body, Your Choice**
YSC Blog
January 03, 2019

**My Body, My Choice: Aesthetic Flat Closure After Mastectomy**
Our Bodies Ourselves
July 21, 2020

ReThink Article Aesthetic Flat Closure — **Why I Advocate for Aesthetic Flat Closure**
ReThink Breast Cancer
August 13, 2020

International Coverage

**Kim Bowles, sopravvissuta al cancro al seno e la sua lotta per restare ‘piatta’**
LetteraDonna (Italia)
September 13, 2018

**Basta con la “cultura della ricostruzione”: rispettate i desideri delle donne, tutti!**
September 08, 2018

**Woman protests topless after double mastectomy ‘assault’**
Newshub NZ
January 07, 2019

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