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Embracing our bodies and transforming perceptions of aesthetic flat closure (AFC)… one breast cancer walk at a time.

  • Over 100 Stand Tall AFC teams worldwide
  • Over 1,500 participants
  • Over 100,000 impacted through visibility and education

Survivorship Looks Like This For Millions of Women!

  • Over 200,000 women have mastectomies each year (~100,000 have AFC, ~100,000 have implant reconstruction and ~18,000 have tissue reconstruction in the U.S.)
  • From the 1970s-2020, “no reconstruction” was used as a surgical term; women were often left with uncomfortable, unwanted, and unsightly excess tissue
  • In 2020, the National Cancer Institute introduced aesthetic flat closure (AFC), to define a post-mastectomy smooth, flat chest result

AFC advantages:

  • lowest rates of complications
  • fastest recovery
  • No longterm health risks or lifetime maintenance of implants
  • least expensive post-mastectomy option

AFC is often not presented to patients by surgeons due to bias and outdated beliefs about wholeness and femininity despite it’s health benefits.

Stand tall AFC offers a modern perspective through visibility.

Stand Tall AFC teams participate in breast cancer awareness and women’s health events to empower the millions of survivors who have one or no breasts after cancer treatment or prevention.


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Empowering women with one or no breasts after cancer treatment and prevention.