Boost Innovations Limited

What happens if you are a large breasted person and you need a single mastectomy after your breast cancer diagnosis? Usually, there are two options. You might be offered a mastectomy and reconstruction, with additional reduction surgery on the remaining breast to create evenness. Or you might be offered a mastectomy with a reduction of the remaining breas...

Boost has a reputation for inclusive, human-centred design for health and wellbeing. We hate making design assumptions about what people need, or what they think and feel. Instead, we wish to co-design with the communities we work with, and for our first breast shapers, we have done this successfully, working to include women who've had breast cancer all ...

Boost's customers have shown that they don't want levels of complications, fuss, ongoing medicalisation or tech for tech's sake. They want a product that helps their clothes to sit nicely against their bodies, they want to feel confident and comfortable. We know this because women have told us; both through our human-centred design activity engaging 160 w...

Boost Innovations Ltd is dedicated to supporting women after breast cancer treatment. Unfortunately, many women who have had mastectomy operations are in high risk categories and remain isolated due to the Covid 19 outbreak. Boost has already designed and created a new pioneering breast form to restore shape under clothing. However, breast form fitting se...

1 in 8 women are expected to receive a breast cancer diagnosis in their lifetime, but not all these will diagnoses will result in full breast removal surgery. With increasing success in the treatment of breast cancer, full breast removal is a last resort. We feel that little is understood about the impact on identity and well-being that partial breast rem...