Be bold, be bald, is this campaign helpful? Umm, no. Update: The Be Bold, Be Bald campaign is being suspended. The founder listened to advocates and patients who were discussing this on social media and came to this decision. Huge news? Maybe not. But it is advocacy in action producing results. I applaud this decision …
October 13th each year is designated as National Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day. One day. One day out of 31. Breast Cancer Awareness Month dedicates one measly day to the only kind of breast cancer that kills, the metastatic kind. This is just one more thing Breast Cancer Awareness Month has turned inside out.
There’s an important event coming up in the nation’s capitol next week and I am hoping it garners some major media attention. I plan to keep an eye on news coverage that day. What day? On Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day, October 13th. And yes, it’s ridiculous one day is designated for metastatic breast cancer …
It’s time to stop trivializing breast cancer with lame attempts to lighten things up. There is so much nonsense that goes on every October in the name of breast cancer awareness; it’s really quite remarkable. There could be an entire book written on October breast cancer awareness bullshit. And sadly, the bullshit is leeching out …
It’s that time of year again (Breast Cancer Awareness Month, in case there’s one chance in a gazillion you do not know) and I am wondering exactly how you are feeling about it this year. Do you plan to get extra ‘loud’? Do you plan to hide? Do you plan to deck yourself out in …