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“Pinkwashing: Fracking Company Teams Up With Susan G. Komen to ‘End Breast Cancer Forever.’” By Sandra Steingraber, Ecowatch. Susan G. Komen, the largest breast cancer organization in America with more than 100,000 volunteers and partnerships in more than 50 countries, has teamed up with Baker Hughes, one of the world’s largest oilfield service companies with . . . → Read More: Pinkwashing: Fracking Company Teams Up With Susan G. Komen to ‘End Breast Cancer Forever’
“Media Messages about Screenings and their Role in Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment.” By Gary Schwitzer, Engaging the Patient. “Disclaimer: the following is not an anti-screening message. It is, however, a call for improved accuracy, balance and completeness in messages about screening tests. As part of health literacy month, Schwitzer explains that while some journalists have excelled . . . → Read More: Media Messages about Screenings and their Role in Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment
“13th Report on Carcinogens.” Department of Health and Human Services. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell released the 13th Report on Carcinogens on October 2, 2014. (Press Release).The Report on Carcinogens (RoC) is a congressionally mandated, science-based, public health document that the NTP prepared for the HHS Secretary. The report . . . → Read More: “13th Report on Carcinogens”
“We Need More Than Pink Cleats” By Kiana Cox, The Feminist Wire. How does the NFL through its Pink campaign claim to care about the lives of women, but does not see fit to address the danger that its own players pose to women? Every October the NFL, in partnership with the American Cancer Society, . . . → Read More: We Need More Than Pink Cleats
“METAvivor featured on The Balancing Act® on Lifetime®,” Lifetime. The group METAvivor was featured on The Balancing Act® on Lifetime® Television. Lori Marx-Rubiner, President, along with Kelly Lange, Past President and now Secretary/Treasurer and CJ (Dian) Corneliussen-James, Co-Founder/Director of Advocacy and Past President discuss Metastatic (Stage IV) Breast Cancer – or MBC, and how these . . . → Read More: METAvivor featured on The Balancing Act® on Lifetime®
“Cost of the Cure with Dr. Susan Love: Video.” By Beth Kling, SHARE. “Disclaimer: the following is not an anti-screening message. It is, however, a call for improved accuracy, balance and completeness in messages about screening tests. If you missed this webinar from SHARE, “The Cost of the Cure: Collateral Damage from Breast Cancer Treatment . . . → Read More: Cost of the Cure with Dr. Susan Love: Video
“True October,” By Jody Schoger. Women with Cancer. The issue isn’t whether or not awareness helps but the kind of awareness we need to advocate for, the kind of awareness worth the time you have here on earth. Coping with October is about focus, not on noise or commercialization, but on the very real work . . . → Read More: True October
“Cancer Researchers Find “The Angelina Jolie Effect” By Kyle Hill, Nerdist. When Angelina Jolie learned about her own genetic predisposition to breast cancer – and made her diagnosis and treatment very public – she unknowingly urged thousands of women to follow her lead. The announcement of her surgery was maybe more galvanizing than any recent . . . → Read More: Cancer Researchers Find “The Angelina Jolie Effect”
“Cancer connected to glucose and microenvironments?” By Kathleen Hoffman, Medivizor. Why does nature repeat the same forms over and over again? This is a question that has driven Dr. Mina Bissell‘s cancer research. In a 2012 TED talk, Dr. Bissell spent 17 minutes summarizing decades of research–asking and answering unique questions that are toppling . . . → Read More: Cancer connected to glucose and microenvironments?
“Finding Risks, Not Answers, in Gene Tests,” By Denise Grady and Andrew Pollack. The New York Times. Within the next year, at least 100,000 people in the U.S. are expected to have genetic tests. Building on the success of using genetic tests to uncover inherited risks of breast, ovarian and colon . . . → Read More: Finding Risks, Not Answers, in Gene Tests |
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