The campaigner, who lived in Cornwall, was 23 when she learned she had stage 4 cancer that had spread to her spine.
She started the charity CoppaFeel! in a field at a festival. It became one of the leading cancer awareness charities, encouraging millions of young women to check their breasts and creating checking tools. Its message was projected on to the Houses of Parliament and also included the showing of the first nipple on an advertising billboard.
In an interview with the Guardian in 2021, Hallenga said she had been motivated by being "confused and baffled" when diagnosed in 2009. "I kept thinking: "This is bullshit. Why didn't anyone tell me to check my boobs? Why didn't I know I could get breast cancer at 23? I'm pretty sure my friends don't know either, and, if none of us do, then literally no young person in this country fucking knows this secret. This needs to change.' And I got this wave of energy," she said.
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