One might assume that anything involving breast cancer awareness would be based on the best available evidence. Unfortunately, this assumption would be wrong. I’ve evaluated hundreds of campaigns, advertisements, websites, educational brochures, and other sundry materials related to breast cancer awareness only to find information that is inaccurate, incomplete, irrelevant, or out of context. We could spend the whole year . . . → Read More: 3. Factoids and Impressions
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Jody Schoger is a writer and cancer advocate with more than 25 years of experience in public relations and communications in health care, science, education and the arts. Following her own diagnosis with a locally advanced breast cancer in l998, she has since devoted her energy to helping other survivors. She is the author of the “Anchored Activism” column in . . . → Read More: 2. “Left Behind” Last October, Abigail Zuger MD reviewed Pink Ribbon Blues for The New York Times, Breast Cancer Tales: The Inspirational vs. the Actual. It was a double review that included both my book and Nancy Brinker’s Promise Me. In Zuger’s review, Brinker’s book was the “inspirational” tale and mine was the “actual” one. As a social scientist I was pleased that . . . → Read More: 1. The Inspirational Vs. The Actual Photo from http://www.al11pisces.com/category/awareness/ There’s a lot of talk about breast cancer awareness – the need for awareness, the desire to raise awareness, the use of pink ribbons or bracelets or t-shirts to symbolize awareness. The awareness mantra works for generating interest in the cause of breast cancer, creating fanfare, selling products, and maintaining the message that breast cancer . . . → Read More: 30 Days of Breast Cancer Awareness – 2011 Pinking the White House for Breast Cancer Awareness Note: A version of this essay was published on Pink Ribbon Blues and republished on the Oxford University Press Blog on September 30, 2011. And it’s still applicable. — September is National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. Will the White House be lighted in teal just as it’s been lighted in pink . . . → Read More: The Teal before the Pink: Ovarian Cancer Awareness Andrea Mitchell MSNBC On September 7th, NBC’s Andrea Mitchell told viewers that on a “personal note” she was “now among the one in eight women in this country…who have had breast cancer.” In her one-minute reveal about how her summer vacation ended with a diagnosis instead of a hiking trip, Ms. Mitchell assured viewers that her breast cancer . . . → Read More: A Call for Responsible Reporting Brief Biography: Krisanne A Dattir, an aerialist on hiatus, is an award winning poet who has been published in various print and on-line venues. She is presently working on her MFA thesis, a memoir hybrid, which includes how her diagnosis with breast cancer last year interrupted her training and an aerial silks performance. She is also . . . → Read More: A Poem by Krisanne A. Dattir Lani Horn, a.k.a. Chemobabe Pink Ribbon Blues is honored to share a recent post from blogger, Lani Horn, who writes under the name Chemobabe. She is a social scientist in her “regular life” and created ChemoBabe as a persona who has “enough spunk and edge to get smacked down” by treatment and “stand back up ready to fight some . . . → Read More: Attention! [by Chemobabe] |
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