There’s rising concern about breast most cancers survivors being mistreated throughout safety screening at Australian airports.
Breast Cancer Network Australia has been contacted by greater than ten girls who had been distressed about their therapy this 12 months, however the true quantity is believed to be a lot greater.
Some girls who had undergone a mastectomy had been requested to take away their prosthesis.
The advocacy group is now calling on all airports to coach their employees about sensitively display screen survivors after Canberra Airport applied coaching final month.
Full physique scanners decide up gadgets worn below clothes, equivalent to prosthesis, which then triggers the necessity for a secondary screening.
The organisation says airport employees shouldn’t take away any prosthesis and solely pat down an individual over their garments in a personal space by somebody of the identical gender.
Breast most cancers survivor Sue was very distressed when she was patted down in public and requested to take away her prosthesis whereas travelling between Perth and Melbourne in October.
“Although the staff were not blatantly rude, they seemed to lack sensitivity and compassion to my situation,” she mentioned.
“It took me by surprise, and I didn’t know I could ask to be patted down in a private room, and they didn’t offer.”
