Overview

• Smith will run the 14-kilometre Voltaren City2Surf topless this weekend with “Flat out for funding” painted across her chest to promote the flat after mastectomy choice.
• She carries a BRCA2 mutation that gives her a 70% risk of breast cancer and decided to live flat after experiencing debilitating implant-related illness following reconstruction.
• A July study by Flinders University found nearly 20% of women aren’t informed about the flat option before surgery and 18% only learn of it when they ask.
• Inherited Cancers Australia remains the sole national charity dedicated to hereditary cancer support and has never received federal funding, leaving it financially strained.
• Smith hopes her high-visibility run will attract corporate sponsors and individual donors to secure sustainable funding for psychosocial services.