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your opinion.
During October Breast Cancer Month many people put efforts into showing their commitment to the cause. The Pink Ribbon is often commercially exploited and the link between the revenue and the contribution is often not clear. Does commercialization of Pink Ribbon create added value to the cause?
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Receive your free Pink Ribbon Mug today by starting your personal Pink Ribbon Blog.
In order to encourage our vistors to participate on our blog, Pink Ribbon will reward active entries randomly with a welcome present, an original Pink Ribbon International mug (normally worth $11.99). Please sign up, fill in your name and address on the registration form and start your personal blog on the Pink Ribbon blog. Your welcome present will be send to your home address.
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The Pink Ribbon Team
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 ALL KIDS NOW DONATE VIRTUALLY TO PINK RIBBON
We specially welcome our younger visitors, members of Stardoll and other communities.
We invite all kids to support the cause by placing hyperlinks to our Pink Ribbon website on your personal blogs, forums and websites. And don't forget to ask 5 of your best friends to do the same!
By doing this you will help us create more awareness world wide in support of the cause.
The Pink Ribbon Team
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Gene Could Predict Tamoxifen Treatment Failure
Feb 02nd 2010 - Scientists in Belfast have identified a gene which could predict whether women with breast cancer will respond to treatment with tamoxifen, according to findings published in Cancer Research. 
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Important Advance In Imaging Of Cell Death
Feb 1st 2010 - For quite some time, the "Holy Grail" in medical imaging has been the development of an effective method to image cell death as a means to intervene early in diseases and rapidly determine the effectiveness of treatments. A new paper by researchers at the University of Notre Dame and the Washington University School of Medicine describes important progress in using a synthetic probe to target dead and dying cells in mammary and prostate tumors in living animals.
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If you would like to share your thoughts, feelings, and experiences , feel free to create your own personal blog.
Latest entry:
I I worked in the Cancer Treatment Center for a major hospital when I discovered that I had breast cancer, I first felt a lump in my right breast while doing my regular breast examination. While working in the radiation department I went to the doctor and asked them if they would give me a breast exam and sure enough they also felt a lump. With that news they first thought that came to mind was that I was going to die( I know that is the first thought that everyone gets). I had a right lumpectomy done just to make sure that it hadn't spread to my lymph nodes. in which it didn't I had a mammogram done showing that it was the size of a golf ball which was in its first stage. So I went through Chemotherapy and radiation, bu during the time of my treatment I got really sick, I got so sick that I had to be admitted into the hospital, I lost my equilibrium, had 3 seizures( never had a seizure before in my life) I needed oxygen to breath, I went from weighing 30 pounds to 95 pounds. I was in such terrible pain didn't know exactly where I was or what was happening to me.
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October breast cancer month.
Already in 1985 Astra Zeneca dedicated October to breast cancer, introducing the National Breast Cancer Awareness Month in the United States. During the following 25 years, from New York to Hong Kong, from Stockholm to Cape Town, whether in the name of Pink Ribbon, Cinta Rosada, Fenhongsidai or Ruban Rose, people everywhere in the world have been jointly organizing activities, publishing magazines and raising money for the cause. However, breast cancer is not just a reality of October. Breast cancer is a hard reality of the entire year, of every month, of every day and even of every minute. The very same reality as any other life threatening disease that deserves the same attention and awareness as breast cancer receives during the month of October.
A few years ago, my father told me when he was in pain about the breast cancer of my sister, ‘Walter, you can cover a pistol with pink flowers but it is still a pistol, a lethal threat’. And he was absolutely right. The pink that is coloring our lifes during the month of October. whether commercial or sincere, shouldn’t cover the reality of breast cancer itself. Worldwide, millions of people, women and men are suffering from breast cancer every day. And each and everyone of them feels the pain, the fear, the guilt, the uncertainty, the responsibility, the loss, being thrown back to the core essence of life. And let us not forget our loved ones we lost. May all of this being represented by this vulnerable appearing color.
However, the brightness of pink at the same time stands for hope and strength of each individual to fight its personal fight. It stands for the community making this personal fight a community responsibility. It stands for all the efforts of people; fund raisers, medical staff, researchers, students, and volunteers worldwide, working together to find the cure. It stands for the industry proving its mature responsibility towards manufacturing processes, ingredients and products. It stands for equal fundamental rights for all breast cancer survivors whether born in richness or in poverty anywhere on mother earth.
Pink Ribbon stands in my view for one thing that makes Pink Ribbon unique, a world wide solidarity of people and breast cancer organisations to stand together. We therefore dedicate October 2009 to the solidarity of all people. Let’s fight together!
Walter Scheffrahn
Founder Pink Ribbon Inc.
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Do you already have your own Pink Ribbon hooded sweatshirt?
This official Pink Ribbon International hooded sweatshirt is offered at a discount price of $37.99. The sweatshirt has the Pink Ribbon pocket logo on the front side and a Pink Ribbon shoulder logo on the back side. For the official sweatshirt or other Pink Ribbon products please visit our shop at www.pinkribbonshop.org or click here.
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Pink Ribbon strives to create worldwide multilingual presence.
We are searching for Certified Translators who are willing to support our cause by translating our website into other languages. Please contact us at translations@pinkribbon.org .
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Did you know that Pink Ribbon was introduced during the Komen Race for The Cure in 1991?
The first chapter in the history of Pink Ribbon as a symbol for breast cancer awareness can be found at the Komen Foundation's Race for The Cure, on the 16th of June 1990. At this race, held in Washington DC, the Komen Foundation handed out pink visors randomly to the 8,529 walkers. Some participants wore Pink Ribbons. A year later,in 1991, Komen distributed pink ribbons to every participant in it's New York City Race For The Cure. As from this year, the pink ribbon became the symbol for breast cancer awareness.
*"It is not surprising given their commitment to breast cancer marketing, that the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation was the first breast cancer organisation to latch on to the idea of distributing pink ribbons to every participant in its 'New York City Race for the Cure'." click here for more...
Sources:
*Pink Ribbons, Inc.
University of Minnesota
2006, page XXIV,
by Samantha King
associate professor of kinesiology and health studies, and women's studies
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
Canada
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