While the pink ribbon, Susan G. Komen and her organization’s widely attended nationwide cancer walks, and Breast Cancer Awareness Month have all become mainstream over the past decade thanks to a relentless marketing campaign and the ongoing “feminization of breast cancer,” few people realize that the movement came from [...]
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Breast Cancer Awareness Month: We Are Aware That No Progress Has Been Made
For any woman who is born today, the chance of developing breast cancer during her lifetime is 1 in 8 (in the 1970s it was 1 in 10). In the beginning of 2012, there were 2.9 million U.S. women and thousands of men with a history of breast cancer. Breast [...]
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