Cancer survivor's naked campaign

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A Northumberland woman, who has twice survived breast cancer, is stripping off to raise awareness of the disease.

Emma Duncan, 33, from Cramlington, will appear in posters in Cancer Research UK shops wearing nothing but body paint and holding a rubber duck.

She is promoting the charity's All Join Together campaign after also losing her grandmother and mother to cancer.

The campaign aims to raise funds for research into the disease as well as increasing awareness.

Emma, who was 29 when she was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2003, said she found posing for the posters "very liberating".

She was treated with a lumpectomy, chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

'Very positive'

After turning 31, she was diagnosed with a tumour in her other breast following a routine check-up in June 2005. She went on to have a double mastectomy and reconstructive surgery.

She said: "I've had issues with the way I look following my treatment for breast cancer and I think that many breast cancer survivors feel the same way.

"I've found taking part in the photoshoot for the campaign very liberating.

"I think it's daring, but very positive to show breast cancer survivors naked in Cancer Research UK shop windows. I'm nude but it's all done for the best possible cause."

Each year 44,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer in the UK.

In the posters, the Npower worker is painted white and stencilled with red and black love hearts, which bear the words 'true' and 'false' - a pattern by British designer Lulu Guinness.

Guinness and fellow designer Tracey Boyd have also created limited edition rubber ducks for sale.