“I felt like I was in a position with Beare Park to raise funds for breast cancer research and raise awareness in our community around the importance of prioritising early testing,” she shares. Having a scare so close to home inspired Pereira to use her platform - and her label, Beare Park - to join the fight against breast cancer. I am so grateful to Angie, that she prioritised having a mammogram and was able to be treated for her breast cancer.” “It is impossible to describe with words how brave Angie is and how proud I am of her. “Angie is a carrier of the BRCA2 gene mutation and underwent major surgery to treat the cancer and prevent recurrence,” Pereira tells BAZAAR Australia/New Zealand.
It was an eye-opening experience for Pereira, both in the way it reinforced the crushing familiarity of breast cancer, and the way she witnessed her friend’s resilience. It’s a disease that has cast a shadow over all of our lives, or those of the people we love, in some way.įor local designer Gabriella Pereira, that shadow passed awfully close to home last year when her best friend Angie was diagnosed last year, aged just 27. WITH 57 AUSTRALIANS diagnosed each day, breast cancer is the second most commonly diagnosed cancer in Australia and the most common among women.
