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ANNOUNCEMENT Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) is currently accepting applications for the 2015 Barbara Rosenblum Dissertation Scholarship for the Study of Women and Cancer. SWS is a nonprofit, scientific and educational organization with members in the U.S. and overseas. Its mission is to promote and disseminate research about women; educate colleagues, the general public, . . . → Read More: Call for Applications – SWS Dissertation Scholarship Award 
“San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) Underway,” SABCS. The San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) is the largest scientific meeting devoted to breast cancer. Geared primarily for clinicians and researchers, breast cancer advocates now regularly attend the meeting. For 16 years, the Alamo Breast Cancer Foundation (ABCF) has planned and run a . . . → Read More: San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) 
Breast Cancer Action will help you to host a community screening of the film Pink Ribbons, Inc. directed by Léa Pool. This feature documentary shows how the devastating reality of breast cancer, which marketing experts have labeled a “dream cause,” has been hijacked by a shiny, pink story of success. Based on a book by . . . → Read More: Community Screenings of Pink Ribbons Inc. 
Steve Davenport is the author of two poetry collections: Overpass (Arsenic Lobster/Misty Publications, 2012) and Uncontainable Noise (Pavement Saw Press, 2006). The terrain of Overpass is the Illinois floodplain across the river from St. Louis; the figure who hovers above it all is a woman diagnosed with breast cancer named Overpass Girl. Breast Cancer Consortium . . . → Read More: Announcement: Steve Davenport Readings 
ANNOUNCEMENT The National Breast Cancer Coalition urges breast cancer advocates to contact our representatives to Support the DOD Breast Cancer Research Program. Congress must appropriate money in order for the DOD BCRP to maintain funding. The first step in the process is for the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee to appropriate funding. Representatives Gerlach (R-PA), . . . → Read More: NBCC Action Alert – Keep Funding the DOD Breast Cancer Research Program 
Gayle Sulik will be giving a keynote presentation on “Moving Beyond Awareness: A Changing Breast Cancer Landscape” next Tuesday (March 18, 2011) at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, CA. There will be a reception prior to the talk at 5:30 pm, the talk at 6:00 pm, and a book signing afterwards. This event . . . → Read More: Mar. 18: Sulik Keynote on Moving Beyond Awareness, University of the Pacific
In conjunction with Gayle Sulik’s keynote on Moving Beyond Awareness on March 18th, there will be a screening of Pink Ribbons, Inc. on Monday, March 17 at 7:00 pm at the Janet Leigh Theatre. Both events are free and open to the public. For more information, click here. Link to Pink Ribbons, Inc. Flyer (PDF) . . . → Read More: Mar. 17: Screening of Pink Ribbons, Inc. Stockton, CA 
Alicia Staley, Jody Schoger, and Deanna Attai, the women who created #BCSM (Breast Cancer Social Media) — an online community for people who have breast cancer — were on a panel at South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas on March 10, 2014. Xeni Jardin from boing boing moderated the panel. “On Independence Day 2011, . . . → Read More: #BCSM (Breast Cancer Social Media) at SXSW (South by Southwest) 
Rethinking Pink The Breast Cancer Consortium entered its second year with no shortage of issues to analyze and report. On-air mammograms, celebrity spots, social media, another large study revealing limitations and harms of mammography screening, a new scandal involving the Komen organization, and ongoing efforts to rethink pink. Jody Schoger was on Al Jazeera’s . . . → Read More: BCC Quarterly Is Out (2014, Issue 1) 
ANNOUNCEMENT Preventing Overdiagnosis 2014 Conference September 15-17, 2014 Oxford, UK The Preventing Overdiagnosis conference will take place on 15-17 September 2014 in the UK in partnership with one of the world’s most respected medical journals, the BMJ. A limited number of places are available at the current fee of £345.00. Abstract submission will close on . . . → Read More: Preventing Overdiagnosis Conference, 2014 Registration, Abstracts OPEN |
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