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The first word I managed to utter upon hearing the news that I had breast cancer was ‘why’. Why breast cancer, at such a young age, with no family history or risk factor? It was November 2010. Four months had passed since my thirtieth birthday. I was living in the UK at that time, but . . . → Read More: Changing the conversation on breast cancer in Italy – reflections by Dr Grazia De Michele 
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 
Britain’s best-selling tabloid newspaper, The Sun launched a new campaign called “Check ‘em Tuesday” using topless models to promote breast self exam (BSE) as a way to “spot disease early.” The front page headline “Page 3 V Breast Cancer” features a topless twenty-two-year-old woman named Rosie, from Middlesex. Rosie strikes a similar pose on the . . . → Read More: Does The Sun’s Check ’em Tuesday campaign raise awareness or does it just set up a sexy breast cancer blame game? 
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) 
“The Breast Cancer Racial Gap,” by Tara Parker Pope, The New York Times Well Blog. A troubling racial divide in breast cancer mortality continues to widen in most major cities around the country, suggesting that advances in diagnosis and treatment continue to bypass African-American women, according to new research. An analysis of breast cancer mortality . . . → Read More: The Breast Cancer Racial Gap
“Infantilizing life’s troubles: One has to wonder why a campaign like Pink Shirt Day is needed,” by Pete McMartin, The Vancouver Sun. I wear pink on occasion. A button-down Oxford cloth shirt with a blue blazer. For me, it’s an edgy fashion statement, not the colour of altruism. When my wife was diagnosed with breast . . . → Read More: Infantilizing life’s troubles 
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) 
According to Wikipedia, “the term “white elephant” refers to an extravagant but burdensome gift which cannot be easily disposed of, supposedly after the King of Siam gifted rare albino elephants to courtiers who had displeased him, that they might be ruined by the animals’ upkeep costs.” The term is also fitting for a recent campaign . . . → Read More: The PINK White Elephant
“The Lies That Doctors and Patients Tell, by Sandeep Jauhar, MD, The New York Times Well Blog. The doctor-patient relationship is ideally an intimate partnership where information is exchanged openly and honestly. That is seldom the reality, however. Deception in the doctor-patient relationship is more common than we’d like to believe. We don’t always reveal . . . → Read More: The Lies That Doctors and Patients Tell |
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