A Call for Responsible Reporting

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 . . . → Read More: A Call for Responsible Reporting

What We Could Learn From George Burns About Breast Cancer Risk

Making sense of one’s personal risk for developing a disease is complicated. In fact, it’s virtually impossible. We all know of lifetime smokers who never get lung cancer and nonsmokers who do. While there is a strong probability that smoking causes lung cancer, the smoking-lung cancer equation is not definitive for all individuals. There . . . → Read More: What We Could Learn From George Burns About Breast Cancer Risk

Thinking the Unthinkable

In “1 in 8”: The Probability of Developing Breast Cancer, and Fear, I wrote about the overuse of incidence and mortality statistics to promote an unhealthy anxiousness about breast cancer. The hyper-alertness surrounding this particular type of cancer stems from the seemingly inevitable likelihood that a woman, any woman, will eventually develop the disease. . . . → Read More: Thinking the Unthinkable

“1 in 8” – Fear Mongering and the Probability of Developing Breast Cancer

Every year, over 700 thousand women in the United States are diagnosed with some type of cancer. Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in women and is the second leading cause of cancer death (after lung cancer). In 2009, the American Cancer Society estimated over 192 thousand new cases of breast cancer . . . → Read More: “1 in 8” – Fear Mongering and the Probability of Developing Breast Cancer

“Pink Ribbon Blues,” Book

Paperback includes new Introduction on fundraising controversies and 4-page color insert with images of, and reactions to, the pinking of breast cancer (Oxford, 2012).


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Breast Cancer Consortium

Working across disciplines, constituencies, and nations to change the breast cancer paradigm.

Recent Sulik Interviews

Angelina Jolie and the 'Breast Cancer Gene' Listen to KCRW »

Our Feel-Good War on Breast Cancer. The New York Times Magazine.

The Story Behind the Pink Ribbon Campaign Sisters Talk Radio

WISH Interview Women's International Summit for Health

Making Cancer About The Patient, Not The Body Part CBS Pittsburgh

Sexy breast cancer campaigns anger many patients USA Today

The perils of pink The Daily

Komen pink campaign creates breast-cancer blues for some Dallas Morning News

A yellow flag for the NFL's pink New York Daily

Gayle Sulik named #7 in SharecareNow’s Top 10 Online Influencers in Breast Cancer

"Breast cancer cancer causes so easily derailed" Philly Inquirer

"Komen Charity Under Microscope for Funding, Science" Reuters

"The Fight Against Cancer - And Abortion? Salon.com

"Susan G. Komen For the Cure defunds Planned Parenthood." In Deep with Angie Coiro

"Amid Breast Cancer Month, Is there Pink Fatigue?" NPR's All Things Considered

"How is Breast Cancer Culture Undermining Women's Health?" America’s Radio News Network

"Pink Ribbon Culture and Breast Cancer" The Kojo Nnamdi Show

"The Big Business of Breast Cancer" 
Marie Claire

"Does Breast Cancer Awareness Month Crowd Out Other Diseases?" Slate

"Pink Inc. Has Many Starting to See Red" The Sacramento Bee

"Get Your Pink Off" Ottawa Citizen

"Komen Pink Ribbons Raise Green and Questions" USA Today

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