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The iconic pink breast cancer awareness ribbon — once a consciousness-raising symbol — now functions primarily as a logo for the breast cancer brand. The breast cancer brand, like any other brand, is comprised of a “set of expectations, memories, stories and relationships that, taken together, account for a consumer’s decision to choose” the breast . . . → Read More: Riding the tails of the pink ribbon 
Gayle Sulik will be talking live about #pinkwashing on @AJAMStream Friday at 7:30EST. Join the conversation using #AJAMStream October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month so you’ve probably noticed more pink products on the shelves as companies promote awareness campaigns. But many businesses are accused of “pinkwashing” – plastering pink on their products to make a . . . → Read More: Oct. 11: Buying Pink? Gayle Sulik will be on Al Jazeera’s The Stream Friday 7:30EST to discuss. 
“Awash in Pink.” By Gary Schwitzer, Health News Review. This is what breast cancer awareness looks like in many corners of our country this month. Pink Tow Trucks Take Breast Cancer Awareness On The Road Pink fire truck surprises cancer patients Paint Your Pinky Pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month! Lighting Aerial Lift Bridge . . . → Read More: Awash in Pink 
“Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us.” Nature, vol. 502, p. 167. “Patients with cancer generate so much revenue for the US health care industry that a cure would be an economic risk. thus argues anthropologist S. Lochlann Jain, who deems cancer “a constitutive aspect of American social life, economics, and science” — so bizarrely entwined that . . . → Read More: Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us
“Living With Cancer: Hospital City.” By Susan Gubar, The New York Times Well Blog. When you travel to cancer central, you may find yourself more perplexed by the currency, language, customs, costumes, cuisine and time zone than you would have been if you had landed in Timbuktu. In Hospital City, you can lose your way . . . → Read More: Living With Cancer: Hospital City
“U.S. Cancer Care Facing Crisis, Notes New IOM Report: Key to Improvement-Renewed Focus on Patient-Centered Care.” Oncology Times. An aging population and rising cancer incidence, along with increasing scientific complexity and rapidly escalating costs of care, are placing the U.S. cancer care system in crisis mode, according to a new report from the Institute of . . . → Read More: U.S. Cancer Care Facing Crisis, Notes New IOM Report: Key to Improvement-Renewed Focus on Patient-Centered Care
“Five Years Later: Zigzagging Toward Acceptance.” By BCC member Kathi Kolb, Center for Advancing Health. “Your biopsy is positive.” None of us ever forgets when we first heard some version of that phrase. I heard it five years ago today. And I thought it merited my emerging briefly from my blog hiatus to write a . . . → Read More: Five Years Later: Zigzagging Toward Acceptance
Congratulations to Christie Aschwanden, one of this year’s winners of the Science in Society Journalism Awards, sponsored by the National Association of Science Writers. Her piece, “The Real Scandal: Science Denialism at Susan G. Komen for the Cure” was posted on February 8, 2012, on the web site The Last Word on Nothing. . . . → Read More: 2013 Science in Society Journalism Awards 
Cinzia Greco, PhD Candidate Grazia De Michele, PhD There is no shortage of stories about people whose lives have been touched by breast cancer or calls from media outlets and other venues to collect them. The inspiring image of the courageous, optimistic cancer fighter is commonly revered especially in mass . . . → Read More: Demystifying Breast Cancer – Share the Missing Stories
“I’m just saying no to mammography: Why the numbers are in my favor.” By Christie Aschwanden, The Washington Post. A few days after my 40th birthday, I had a routine appointment with my gynecologist. As she turned to leave the exam room, she handed me a slip of paper without saying a word. It was . . . → Read More: I’m just saying no to mammography: Why the numbers are in my favor |
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