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Mammograms and unnecessary breast cancer treatment
The Cancer Blog
Oct 18th 2006 10:25PM This may very well be the most insidious thing about pink ribbons and Breast Cancer Awareness Month. If this is a reputable study, the numbers are quite disturbing. Chemotherapy and surgery for breast cancer frequently have negative long-term health consequences that can seriously impact quality of life. Hopefully, tests like Oncotype Dx will be in greater use and prevent some of these unnecessary treatments.
Awareness month reason for breast cancer reminders
The Cancer Blog
Oct 14th 2006 7:49PM There's no doubt that reminders save lives, and of course that's great. It's not that I'm annoyed by reminders of breast cancer in October -- the scar on my chest reminds me every day. It's corporations making money from a disease that disturbs me. Campbell's soup donating a measly 3.5 cents per can when some orders from major market chains have doubled really makes me not want to eat soup. It's showing picture after picture of the brave Woman in Pink, who is moving forward with a smile on her face, that annoys me, when the women I know spend a lot more time bald, with their head in a toilet, sometimes after an amputation, too often with permanent disability, and a chance of death when it's all through. It's WONDERFUL that many women are strong enough to keep their daily lives going throughout treatment. Perhaps just as many lose their jobs and their incomes. Pink has connotations of femininity and prettiness. There's nothing pink about breast cancer.
