Tackling key challenges and barriers to accessible cancer care for the South Asian community through co-morbidities, culture and cultural conditioning, and colonisation of medicine.

• Setting the scene of breast cancer/ cancer in South Asians in the UK
• Illustrating the issues via sharing our personal breast cancer stories 
• Common co-morbidities impacting breast cancer in South Asians including metabolism and diabetes, diet and lifestyle, heart/ cardiovascular health
• Culture and cultural conditioning - how this impacts our behaviour around health - hair, marriageability, fertility, 
• Colonisation of medicine - cardiotoxic treatment and genomics, and how we can easily provide prosthetics, garments and wigs that match our skin tone and hair
• What can HCP and cancer organisations do to be more inclusive