when the media reports on celebrity cancer, are we really getting the whole story?
- Written by Brooke Nickel, NHMRC Emerging Leader Research Fellow, University of Sydney
Celebrity supermodel Elle Macpherson disclosed in an interview with The Australian Women’s Weekly earlier this week that seven years ago she was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Media coverage around the world said Macpherson had rejected some “conventional” treatments for the type of breast cancer she had disclosed, known as...





