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“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
“‘Tis the Season for Dallas Restaurant Breast Cancer Fundraisers with Stupid, Sexist Names” By Amy McCarthy, Dallas Observer. Aside from the fact that no one over the age of 13 should be saying the word “boobies,” there is something troubling in sexualizing a highly dangerous disease, which is what you do when you turn “breast . . . → Read More: ‘Tis the Season for Dallas Restaurant Breast Cancer Fundraisers with Stupid, Sexist Names 
Laurie Becklund: Treat me like a statistic and save my life (16:09) Former writer for the L.A. Times Laurie Becklund, Senior Fellow, USC Annenberg, presents at Stanford Medicine X at Stanford University on Sunday, September 7, 2014. She died at age 66 from metastatic breast cancer (the spread of cancer to different parts of . . . → Read More: Laurie Becklund: Treat me like a statistic and save my life 
Published in the Women’s Studies International Forum, 2014. Abstract: Breast cancer awareness campaigns are the major strategy used by public institutions and private organizations to empower women about breast cancer. Yet, drawing on my own research and observations as an academic and activist over the past 9 years in Spain, I argue that these mainstream . . . → Read More: Perilous equations? Empowerment and the pedagogy of fear in breast cancer awareness campaigns
“Some cancer experts see overdiagnosis and question early detection” By Melinda Beck, The Wall Street Journal. “We’re not finding enough of the really lethal cancers, and we’re finding too many of the slow-moving ones that probably don’t need to be found,” says Laura Esserman, a breast-cancer surgeon at the University of California, San Francisco. Early . . . → Read More: Some cancer experts see overdiagnosis and question early detection 
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 
Summertime at BCC… It’s been a hectic, productive summer for the Breast Cancer Consortium. We migrated the BCC website to a faster and more reliable webhost that will also give us additional e-mail and e-commerce options as we continue to build the site. We planned two research and development projects — one to expand our . . . → Read More: BCC Quarterly is Out! (Issue 3) |
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