Every 10 minutes a woman in the UK is diagnosed with breast cancer and around 18,000 mastectomies are performed on the NHS every year.
Yet the products offered by the traditional market to help women recover their bodies and their self-esteem after this major operation is almost pitiful as little to no innovation has taken place in this industry since the 1960’s.
As a consequence, Ms Jackson took matters into her own hands, creating a business to better the lives of breast cancer survivors across the UK.
Ms Jackman originally founded Boost Innovations as a side hustle and has only recently been able to go full-time into the business after earning £17,000 last year, creating open-structured, colourful and comfortable alternatives to the traditional gel breast prosthesis.
She explained that after her mother was provided with one of these gel prosthesis after her single mastectomy which was not to her liking at all: “It made her sweaty, it was hot and was uncomfortable against her scar. It was heavy, and pulled her clothing down when she moved. In the end, she refused to wear it.”
Searching to find a comfortable alternative for her mother, she discovered that many women felt the same way about their prosthesis: “The market clearly needed disrupting and I felt that if I couldn’t find what I was looking for, I needed to create it myself.”
Boost Innovation started as a side hustle while Ms Jackman was working in the heritage and museum sector but it wasn’t until she won BLOOM Gin’s Passion Projects initiative, providing a much needed £20,000 investment for the business, that she was able to quit her job and focus on Boost full-time.
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