For Pam Whittemore and her colleagues at Middlesex Hospital’s Marlborough Medical Center, making “knitted knockers” is more than a hobby. It is a way that the mammographers can help patients who have ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- It's a unique labor of love to crochet or knit a prosthetic breast for women who aren't feeling their best. "I wanted women to feel whole again," said Jennifer Taylor. "I ...

Crocheting was just a hobby for Ann Cooke until she went out shopping one day and bumped in to her former SNA workmate, Linda Burgess, who told her that she had had a bilateral mastectomy. Linda ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Instead of costly heavy prosthetics, more breast cancer survivors who have had a mastectomy are turning to knitted knockers, always donated and showing women how much they’re ...

Two Franklin residents are using their personal hobbies to benefit others. Stephanie Clark taught herself to crochet about four years ago after a friend, Tiffany Buchanan, encouraged her to start ...

One Tucson woman is doing her part to help breast cancer survivors by starting up the local chapter of Knitted Knockers. Knitted Knockers is an international program aimed at creating knit or crochet ...

DECATUR — Breast cancer survivors face many challenges before, during and after their treatments and procedures. Their appearance shouldn’t be a worry, but it often is. Decatur resident Sherry Martin ...

Joan Gutierrez and Gaby Markle are juniors at Lamar Academy in McAllen. They are filling a need, and at the same time, fulfilling their CAS — creativity, activity and service — project required for ...

PARKER — It's an alternative to a traditional prosthesis for breast cancer survivors - Knitted Knockers. The national organization started in 2011 and about two years ago Mary Turek of Parker decided ...