10 Things Wrong with the Pink Ribbon — Revisited! This is an updated, visual version of an earlier post. To read the original, more detailed post in its entirety, click here. What’s wrong with the pink ribbon anyway? Do people ever ask you this question? Are you sometimes at a loss as to how to …
Breast Cancer Awareness Month
18 things real breast cancer patients wish you knew. Note: Sadly, five of the contributors for this piece have since died from MBC. THAT is what I want people to know. Breast cancer is NOT the good cancer, and is in fact, too often still deadly. For clarity: In this particular post, when I’m referring …
How much damage has been done “trying to make ugly pretty” during Breast Cancer Awareness Month over the past 30+ years? Here we are heading into yet another Breast Cancer Awareness Month. It sure seems to roll around fast, right? Advocacy work of many through the years has brought about changes to BCAM, or I’d …
Breast Cancer Awareness Month might be over (whew!), but it never ends for some of us. For those who’ve been diagnosed, every month is BCAM. At least this is the case for me. Once you’ve heard the words, you have cancer, you can’t unhear them. If only turning off cancer thoughts were as easy as …
Metastatic breast cancer, let’s talk about it. Yes, let’s. Metastatic breast cancer (MBC) is a topic that some in Breast Cancer Land avoid. And don’t get me started on the lack of attention (and research $$$) MBC has received over the years. Why this avoidance persists, I will never understand. Some (maybe many?) oncologists don’t …