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By dumb, stupid, random luck I’m an 18 year breast cancer survivor; and I’ve begun to hate the color pink. Bravo to your musings. “Pink” seems to have taken on a life of its own and become the cancer detracting from the need to find a cure. Cancer awareness as a fashion statement sickens me.
We need to set up an educational system that nurtures and rewards brilliant minds and then we need to incentivize them to go into research rather than using their talents in other careers. I don’t see either of these things happening because our world is crammed with agendas competing for the same pool of resources and what chance do we have as long as we can be placated with a t-shirt or car magnet.
I totally agree with the comment. I refuse to participate in anymore Susan G Komens race for the cure as they aren’t trying to find a cure but pad the pockets of of all the higher ups! Susan Komens sister should be ashamed of herself thinking she needs a salary of over 500,00 and a travel budget of over 100,000 all in the name of her dead sister. I won’t buy any clothes with a pink ribbon that give money to that cause. I’m proud to be a 16 year survivor!
AMEN AND AWOMEN! Thanks Missy! Agree completely. Sick of Pink. Also sick of going to funerals, and racing for a cure, and wondering why there is yet no cure.
Thanks To All Sisters for staying so strong. My antidote is STRENGTH (building it, sharing it, sending it).
I was diagnosed with endometrial and not breast cancer, but I fully agree and support your post on ”The Pink Menace”. If it makes people who have been through cancer treatment feel supported, then great. But it has now become a marketing tool that large companies (including non-profits) use to make a profit. Companies exist to make a profit, so fair play to them, but I think that many people who ”buy pink” as a way to feel as if they are helping loved ones who are ill have no real idea how very little of the purchase even goes to the non-profit and of that how and where the money is spent. Like you, I have grave doubts that any significant amount (or maybe any amount at all) is spent on research. It appears that mainly it goes to solicit more donations and create more marketing partnerships. It is true that going through chemo for me was better than it was for both my grandmother and my mother. But this is mainly due to better drugs to manage the side effects, not to a better cure. Chemo itself is like trying to kill an ant hill with a nuclear bomb. Someday, hopefully soon, it will be considered barbaric. Until then we make do and live as healthy as we can.
I agree and thank you so much for saying this!
My survival time has been twenty two years. Back then we called the procedure slash and burn. I consider myself CURED! In my family, I am the only one who has lived to tell their story after five years.
I agree 110% with Elaine’s comment. And I’m beyond thrilled to see this post. We don’t need more awareness and we don’t need more research into toxic drugs. If even a small portion of the money spent in these areas was used to research natural remedies or even – heaven forbid – to figure out the causes of cancer, then we’d be getting somewhere. As for detection, skip the mammogram and go for thermography. It finds the cancer sooner and doesn’t subject your body to radiation – which by the way causes cancer. And I am also a cancer survivor.
How refreshing! I was getting mighty sick of the overwhelming pink and the scare tactics used on the side if you did not buy into the campaign. And heaven forbid, the danger you do to the female community by choosing not to have a mammogram. I, too, want to see results with research. I , too, want to see all cancers and auto-immune diseases go away. I know that having a pink ribbon symbol in your face keeps focus but other groups need focus and attention, too. Light those fires not just under the breast cancer researchers but all groups. Here’s hoping for lots of cures!
I support Breast Cancer Action (http://www.bcaction.org/) and circulate their information on social media
It’s the pinkwashing that’s the problem. Companies that create and sell and otherwise spread toxic carcinogens think that selling something pink and donating some tiny fraction of profits makes it all better. For instance, the fracking industry,one of the biggest environmental and health threats, now has pink drills bits. I’m not kidding. So they destroy woodlands, pour fracking chemicals into the water, buid dangerous compressor stations near our homes and schools, but hey, it’s ok because they have pink drill bits.
Survivors have reason to be proud, but pinkwashers should be ashamed.
My antidote is to do everything I can to help clean up the environment and food supply. I am more careful now about what i eat and what I put on my body. I try to make students aware of the issues.