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annettchen · 10-28-2014, 02:39 PM

Who on earth comes up with something like that? And what on earth is the squished breast made of? That is just wild... And I have to agree, this is so bad it's borderline funny...

My oncologist had the pink ribbon on today when we discussed my re-staging. Apologize for lack of knowledge, but is the Pink Ribbon or even the color pink itself tied to Komen exclusively? I kind of thought that there's e.g. other color ribbons for other types of cancer, even other illnesses? So to me the pink ribbon in and out of itself was not necessarily a bad thing - even though I'm tired of all the educational blabla?

10-28-2014, 02:39 PM	#26
annettchen Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2014 Posts: 95	Re: A Place to Vent about "Awareness" Who on earth comes up with something like that? And what on earth is the squished breast made of? That is just wild... And I have to agree, this is so bad it's borderline funny... My oncologist had the pink ribbon on today when we discussed my re-staging. Apologize for lack of knowledge, but is the Pink Ribbon or even the color pink itself tied to Komen exclusively? I kind of thought that there's e.g. other color ribbons for other types of cancer, even other illnesses? So to me the pink ribbon in and out of itself was not necessarily a bad thing - even though I'm tired of all the educational blabla? __________________ Annette ---------------------------------------- 03/2014: Diagnosed with ER/PR-, HER2+++ MBC (bone mets, oligometastatic) 04/2014: Started 6 cycles of "PHD" (Perjeta, Herceptin, Docetaxol) 07/2014: Finished 6 cycles of PHD; restaging; 2 bone mets are sclerotic - looks like Herceptin and Perjeta is working 10/2014: STABLE! 01/2015: STABLE! 04/2015: STABLE! 08/2015: STABLE! 12/2015: BRAIN METS. BODY STABLE.