20 Oct '12, 5pm

Pink + Green = Breast Cancer Prevention

Pink + Green = Breast Cancer Prevention

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Pink ribbons are everywhere, from lapels and teddy bears, to cleaning products and perfume. So much levity and cheeriness for a disease that is deadly serious. So much hypocrisy when these ribbons may adorn items containing carcinogens . When I think about breast cancer, I think about my mother, who died of it at the age of 50. I think of my own diagnosis 22 years later. And I think of the women I encountered in the waiting room during treatments, and the many I’ve spoken to since, who, unlike me, had no genetic risk factors. Yet, just like me, they were diagnosed with the disease at a relatively early age. Why them? For that matter, why me? Why are so many of us being stricken? Some of the answers can be found in a small, green paperback that my father presented to me a few months after my mother died. Silent Spring by Rachel Cars...

Full article: http://www.care2.com/greenliving/pink-green-breast-cancer...

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