After spending 24 years as an Air Force Intelligence Officer, “CJ” (Dian) Corneliussen-James, retired as a Lieutenant Colonel and took a Senior Analyst position in the Defense of Defense. Slowed down by the diagnoses of both metastatic breast cancer and systemic lupus in 2006, she retired from the government but was soon busy running a support program for metastatic breast . . . → Read More: Research on Metastatic Breast Cancer: “Trying to Stay Alive on Two Percent”
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Photo by Astrid Stawiarz for The Wall Street Journal The fury over Komen’s official responses to the trademark debacle continues to mount as individuals, breast cancer advocates, journalists, bloggers, and the diagnosed raise numerous questions about Komen’s trademark policing, hubris, and financial allocations. Despite an ambiguous admission on the Nightly News with Brian Williams that Komen may have . . . → Read More: Komen’s Leadership In Question Pink Ribbon Blues is pleased to republish the second essay about Komen’s financial situation by Anna Rachnel, titled “Komen By The Numbers: The Context of Research.” The essay was first published on January 30, 2011 on her blog, The Cancer Culture Chronicles. — Context: the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light . . . → Read More: “Komen By The Numbers: The Context of Research” Dr. Linda Rubin, professor and licensed psychologist, is today’s Pink Ribbon Blues contributor. While reading the first few pages of Gayle Sulik’s book, Pink Ribbon Blues, it hit me: I had never heard any public accounts of women’s breast cancer experiences that were anything but positive, triumphant, and uplifting. I asked myself, how could this be? How is it . . . → Read More: Pink Ribbon Culture as a Form of Psychological Denial Anna Rachnel is a breast cancer survivor, former public accountant, and writer for The Cancer Culture Chronicles. With her permission, the Pink Ribbon Blues Blog republishes her recent essay “Komen By The Numbers.” — Living with metastatic breast cancer is a bit like playing an evil game of Whack-A-Mole. Chemotherapy, at this point, is more art than science. Tumors come . . . → Read More: “Komen By The Numbers” On the Nightly News (Jan. 24, 2011) Brian Williams opened a segment about the Susan G. Komen for the Cure® trademark feuds with the following statement: “The Susan G. Komen name is well known…what you may not know…the tactics and the power behind the name and the lengths they go to, to keep their work and their slogan . . . → Read More: Nightly News Reveals Komen’s Overzealousousness Kathleen Kolb is a physical therapist, artist, breast cancer survivor, and writer of the blog The Accidental Amazon. With her permission, the Pink Ribbon Blues Blog republishes her recent essay about the Komen trademark feuds, aptly titled “Hubris For The Cure.” — Ribbons Running Frankly, I’d rather not have to write this post at all. But . . . → Read More: “Hubris For The Cure” Sarah Horton, author of Being Sarah, a true story about choice, control and breast cancer, is today’s Pink Ribbon Blues contributor. Photo Credit: Karen Choudhary I was diagnosed with breast cancer in February 2007. Nearly four years ago. And four years of breast cancer treatment is a lot of hospitals, doctors, and blood tests. A lot. And during . . . → Read More: There Is More That Unites Us This essay was republished with the same title by the Oxford University Press Blog on December 20, 2010, and by KevinMD.com in June, 2011 with the new title “How Susan G. Komen for the Cure affects other cancer non-profits.” — In response to increased publicity surrounding Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s questionable trademark and marketing activities, the organization published . . . → Read More: Susan G. Komen for the Cure® Sells Out the Pink to Get the Green Special correspondent to Oncology Times, Eric Rosenthal, wrote an article titled, “Komen ‘For the Cure’ Trademark Protection Ignites Ire of Some Breast Cancer Bloggers,” that discussed some of the recent concerns, particularly in the blogosphere, about Komen For the Cure’s trademark issues and marketing activities. The article gives brief mention to other issues about the organization, namely the Komen-KFC partnership . . . → Read More: Poor Pink Goliath |
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