When actor Lucy Davis, star of The Office, Shaun of the Dead and The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, shared that she is living with incurable stage four breast cancer, she included a detail that will likely have resonated with many listening: when she initially noticed a small, hard lump in her breast, she “almost didn’t bother” investigating further. Almost half of women in the UK don’t regularly check their boobs for possible signs and symptoms of breast cancer, according to 2025 research carried out by Breast Cancer Now, while 11 per cent say they don’t check at all.