Breast cancer prevention campaigns echo the same message: “Do the self-exam”. What they never address is the fact that our hands are unable to feel a tumor before it reaches 2 cm. And by that time, it may be too late. 

To alert 40+ year women to the importance of the mammogram, we gathered artists who had survived cancer and, despite their sensitive hands, couldn’t detect their breast lumps with self-examination. These women created artworks using their old x-ray sheets as canvases and A.C. Camargo spread the word.

Breast cancer prevention campaigns echo the same message: “Do the self-exam”. What they never address is the fact that our hands are unable to feel a tumor before it reaches 2 cm. And by that time, it may be too late. 

To alert 40+ year women to the importance of the mammogram, we gathered artists who had survived cancer and, despite their sensitive hands, couldn’t detect their breast lumps with self-examination. These women created artworks using their old x-ray sheets as canvases and A.C. Camargo spread the word.