"Pink ribbon culture has been successful in convincing the public to “celebrate breast cancer awareness” to such a degree that the celebration has taken on a life of its own. A person can shop for the cure, laugh for the cure, drink pinktinis for the cure, listen to music for the cure, test-drive a BMW for the cure, watch a porn site for the cure. While all of these activities may leave consumers feeling as though they’ve done something meaningful, such campaigns lack transparency and consumers are usually giving only pennies on the dollar to breast cancer initiatives and in some unscrupulous cases, none at all. Conversely, there are those that feel “any money is good money” and are indifferent to money being donated by companies that may have dubious ties to breast cancer risk factors or that exploit women and sexualize a serious disease." ----- Gayle Sulik
http://pinkribbonblues.org/2012/10/w...comment-146335
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"Cancer has a nasty habit of taking things away from people--things like hair and strength and jobs and time. Sometimes it takes them away for a short time and sometimes it takes them away permanently. Cancer may have already taken something from you. But this is not a story about what cancer takes. It's aboout what it can give back...." --- Lynn Eib in "When God and Cancer Meet: True Stories of Hope and Healing" I love this author. Her books have been a tremendous blessing to me this year. The only one I haven't read yet is "50 Days of Hope" which I'm asking for for Christmas. If you are interested, here is a good resource for new and used books that are available (hit the compare price button):
http://www.allbookstores.com/search?...o.x=10&Go.y=12
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"Progress has been slow and public perception skewed, the National
Breast Cancer Coalition said in its annual report on the disease this
fall. “Given the attention and resources directed to breast cancer,
the public understandably believes that we have made significant
progress,” the report said. But “we know little about how to prevent
breast cancer or how to prevent deaths from the disease.”
"We get sidetracked by efforts to focus on getting every woman a mammogram.”
--NBCC
http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...st-cancer.html
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"...And "cancer as gift?" We won't go there.
If cancer's a gift my
friend Katie Ford Hall said, "
then I'm demanding a refund." Stop by
customer service, thank you very much. 
"Acceptance is the middle ground. Acceptance is pragmatic and
realistic, it means that cancer (or any threatening illness) is
something I will have to deal with for the rest of my life.
Acceptance, though stark, frees you. It empowers you to take positive
steps to address your diagnosis, from seeking a second opinion, to
making lifestyle changes after treatment. It means that you live with
the knowledge cancer could return without living in fear of that
happening. Sometimes I tell friends, as if to remind them, "you don't
have cancer today." Acceptance helps keep our feet on the ground.
"Accepting cancer in your life doesn't equate to being at peace with
it; and it doesn't mean that grief is bypassed since few things in
life, other than a ruler, are linear. You can accept your diagnosis
and be actively mourning the loss of safety and certainly your family
is experiencing. Lost time hurts. Acceptance demands that we look at
the problem, rather than away. At it's simplest it is life on life's
terms.
That's where I am right now: life on life's terms."
---Jodi
http://womenwcancer.blogspot.com/201....html?spref=fb
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"
The calendar comes back to it each year. The day she found out about her breast cancer."
--Sulick
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