A terminally ill woman has hit out at Facebook after a “potentially life-saving” photograph showing one of her nipples was removed from her page.
Rowena Kincaid, who has secondary stage-four breast cancer, said the decision to remove the image could prevent thousands of people from learning about the symptoms of the disease.
When she was diagnosed in October 2013, she was told she had three to six months to live. The picture editor, from Cardiff, initially defied doctors’ expectations but her health is now deteriorating.
On 23 January Ms Kincaid posted a photograph of her right breast, showing a blotchy red rash around her nipple. Breast cancer can present itself in many ways, she explained, not necessarily around the nipple, but anywhere in the chest or breast area. “Any rash on the breast [or] chest that doesn’t go away, or seems to be growing should be investigated,” she wrote.
Within two hours the photograph had made 72,000 “impressions”, but, Ms Kincaid claimed, when she tried to log on later that day she was notified that the image had been taken down as it violated Facebook’s code of practice. Cont.
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