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09:00 - 24 April 2008

Women who wear prosthetics after breast cancer surgery are not aware they can get free replacements from the NHS.

Brigitte Armstrong, 48, who has worked with a specialist at Nottingham City Hospital, told the Post: "People are entitled to prosthetics from the NHS but we get a lot of women who come in when theirs are finished. They don't realise that can get a new one. Eventually they do disintegrate and you wonder how they have managed and that's what I was shocked at when I went to work at the City hospital. They just seem to make do.I want to try and make people more knowledgeable - that you don't just have to make do."

Mrs Armstrong, who owns Jolie Lingerie in Wollaton Road, Beeston, offers specially designed bras for women who have had breast surgery. The shop has teamed up with Anita care UK to offering a one-to-one fitting day for pre-operative and post-operative mastectomy or reconstruction customers on April 25, from 9am to 7pm at Jolie Lingerie. Call 0115 925 7774