The purpose of awareness, education and fundraising campaigns about cancer is cancer prevention, and ultimately, a cancer cure. What we do not know can hurt us, and what we do not learn may hasten our death. Women celebrities who have been diagnosed with breast cancer, and allow the public access to information about one of the most significantly personal and life-altering moments that can happen in a woman's life, raise public awareness, and funds, for cancer causes. Kylie Minogue, Melissa Etheridge, Anastacia, and most recently, Sheryl Crow, are women celebrities who have been public about their diagnosis of breast cancer. Each one of these women lend their celebrity status to raising awareness and funds for breast cancer research, prevention and cure.

Anastacia, who enjoys worldwide popularity as a singer/songwriter, diagnosed with breast cancer in 2003, is a breast cancer survivor who is promoting breast cancer prevention and support for younger women diagnosed with breast cancer by establishing the Anastacia Fund within The Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Her primary focus is encouraging women under 40 to go in for breast cancer screening, self-examination and mammograms, even when there is no family history of breast cancer. Anastacia believes it saved her life.