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Independent journalist Christie Aschwanden explains in the Journal of the American Medical Association how she decided (without the help of her doctor) to opt out of screening mammograms, not just in her 40s but indefinitely. She describes that soon after her 40th birthday, her gynecologist handed her a mammogram prescription. The order came with no . . . → Read More: JAMA Editorial on Opting Out of Mammography 
“When cancer is not cancer.” By Peggy Orenstein, The California Sunday Magazine. Peggy Orenstein (The New York Times bestselling author and contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine) writes a short, provocative profile of an influential cancer specialist in San Francisco who has proposed reclassifying nearly a third of breast cancer cases, and is . . . → Read More: When cancer is not cancer 
Breast Cancer Action Featured on The Daily Show, Explaining Pinkwashing and those Pink Fracking Drill Bits The Daily Show Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Daily Show on Facebook . . . → Read More: Pink Fracking Drill Bits on The Daily Show New York Breast Cancer Network Rebukes a Perilous Pinkwashing Partnership Between Komen and Fracking
By Margaret Roberts, Laura Weinberg and Andi Gladstone of NYSBCN The New York State Breast Cancer Network (NYSBCN) is the only network of community-based, survivor-driven, breast cancer organizations in New York. Collectively, our 22 member organizations reach over 100,000 New Yorkers each year with essential breast cancer support and information services. Many of our groups . . . → Read More: New York Breast Cancer Network Rebukes a Perilous Pinkwashing Partnership Between Komen and Fracking 
by Margaret Roberts In this three-part series on fracking and human health, Margaret Roberts of Capital Region Action Against Breast Cancer and the New York State Breast Cancer Network explores some of the many reasons health advocates and others are concerned about the combination of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) with horizontal drilling, a large-scale industrial practice . . . → Read More: Concerned about Fracking, Part 3: Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs) and Earthquakes
by Margaret Roberts In this three-part series on fracking and human health, Margaret Roberts of Capital Region Action Against Breast Cancer and the New York State Breast Cancer Network explores some of the many reasons health advocates and others are concerned about the combination of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) with horizontal drilling, a large-scale industrial practice . . . → Read More: Concerned about Fracking, Part 2: Water Pollution, Radiation, & Drought
By Margaret Roberts In this three-part series on fracking and human health, Margaret Roberts of Capital Region Action Against Breast Cancer and the New York State Breast Cancer Network explores some of the many reasons health advocates and others are concerned about the combination of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) with horizontal drilling, a large-scale industrial practice . . . → Read More: Concerned about fracking, Part 1: Air Pollution and Accidents
Image Credit: EnvironmentalHealthProject.Org Within the last decade, the combination of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) with horizontal drilling has initiated large-scale drilling for natural gas across the United States. The fracking process begins with well construction, drilled into geologic formations that may contain large quantities of oil or gas, and then stimulates the release of . . . → Read More: Are Concerns About Fracking Well-Founded?
“A slow walk into the amazing now: How a day with a sick friend brought me back to my senses.” By Ann Lamott, Salon. Barbara was the executive director of Breast Cancer Action, the bad girls of breast cancer, a grassroots advocacy group with a distinctly bad attitude towards the pink ribbon approach. Susie was . . . → Read More: A slow walk into the amazing now |
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