{"id":3340,"date":"2016-11-02T12:00:33","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=3340"},"modified":"2018-07-26T12:24:03","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T11:24:03","slug":"support-4-all-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/support-4-all-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"SuPPORT 4 All: Pioneering project to design a bra for women undergoing breast radiotherapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shu.ac.uk\/about-us\/our-people\/staff-profiles\/heidi-probst\" target=\"_blank\">Professor Heidi Probst<\/a> and her colleagues in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shu.ac.uk\/about-us\/academic-departments\/allied-health-professionals\" target=\"_blank\">Allied Health<\/a> have been working with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shu.ac.uk\/about-us\/our-people\/staff-profiles\/heath-reed\" target=\"_blank\">Heath Reed<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shu.ac.uk\/research\/specialisms\/cultural-communication-and-computing-research-institute\/research-centres\/art-and-design-research-centre\" target=\"_blank\">Art &amp; Design Research Centre<\/a> to develop a revolutionary bra for use during radiotherapy for breast cancer. <\/p>\n<p>The new bra preserves the dignity of breast cancer patients during radiotherapy and aims to improve the accuracy of treatment by keeping the breast in the same position each time.  The bra is the product of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.support4all.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>SuPPORT 4 All<\/em><\/a> project, a collaboration between the Sheffield Hallam University research teams, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sth.nhs.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust<\/a> and Sheffield-based lingerie company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.panache-lingerie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Panache<\/a>.  It is funded by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nihr.ac.uk\/research-and-impact\/research\/nihr-studies\/invention-for-innovation.htm\" target=\"_blank\">NIHR Invention for Innovation<\/a> (i4i) Programme. The pioneering project has received extensive local, national and international coverage, including in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.co.uk\/news\/bra-vo-for-sheffield-s-revolutionary-breast-cancer-care-support-1-8181786\" target=\"_blank\">Sheffield Star<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southyorkshiretimes.co.uk\/news\/bra-vo-for-sheffield-s-revolutionary-breast-cancer-care-support-1-8181786\" target=\"_blank\">South Yorkshire Times<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-3821252\/New-breast-cancer-bra-worn-radiotherapy-allows-women-retain-dignity-improves-accuracy.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mail Online<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadastandard.com\/article\/248239089\/new-breast-cancer-bra-worn-during-radiotherapy-improves-accuracy\" target=\"_blank\">Canada Standard<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.singaporenews.sg\/science\/new-breast-cancer-bra-which-is-worn-during-radiotherapy-allows-women-to-retain-their-dignity-and-improves-accuracy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Singapore News<\/a>. You can watch a video about the project on <a href=\"http:\/\/www4.shu.ac.uk\/mediacentre\/academics-hook-lingerie-company-improve-radiotherapy-treatment\" target=\"_blank\">SHU\u2019s Media Centre<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Heidi Probst and her colleagues in Allied Health have been working with Heath Reed of the Art &amp; Design Research Centre to develop a revolutionary bra for use during radiotherapy for breast cancer. The new bra preserves the dignity of breast cancer patients during radiotherapy and aims to improve the accuracy of treatment by keeping the breast in the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8633,"featured_media":3341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[5,159,202,523,525,524],"class_list":["post-3340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-art-and-design-research-centre","tag-design-health","tag-heath-reed","tag-heidi-probst","tag-radiotherapy","tag-support-4-all"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2017\/10\/REED-2016-10-SuPPORT-4-All.jpg?fit=891%2C290&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8oFHo-RS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6325,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/lab4living-support4all-nihr\/","url_meta":{"origin":3340,"position":0},"title":"Lab4Living wins more NIHR i4i funding for the Support4All project","author":"Ian Braddick","date":"01\/03\/2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Heidi Probst and Heath Reed have won another National Institute for Health Research Invention for Innovation (NIHR i4i) project for Lab4Living. 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