Does anyone else find it annoying that most cancer related products are related to breast cancer? Many of us are fighting other cancers, yet the products are all pink! Does anyone know where to find brain cancer/tumor related products? I've been to zazzle and cafe express. Thanks!
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There is less funding for breast cancer is why the pink campaign that you see all the time. I thought everyone knew that???????
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LOL! I even complained to my chemo doc, which he thought was funny! I asked him, where's the gray stuff?? My son got my tshirt from tshirthell.com. BTW, MOST of the cancer funding seems to be going to breast cancer awareness, hence the PINK products at every turn.
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I'll tell you why because breast cancer seems to metastasize to other areas faster than other cancer. No cancer is more important than another. Lets face it, all cancers suck. My sister had breast cancer. 2 yrs after her surgery, she developed brain cancer. When she had the tumors removed, they were breast cancer cells in those tumors. My sister in law was the same way, only her breast cancer detoured to her lungs. She died at 33 from lung cancer caused by breast cancer cells. She never smoked a day in her life either. One woman started the pink ribbon. Susan G. Koman I believe. Why don't you start one for brain cancer. No one says you have to only use pink ribbons. I wish you well.
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I have brain cancer. I too am sick of the focus on only breast cancer. Contrary to what people think, breast cancer is not on the rise. Just the fact that it is easier to diagnose and people are talking about it. We do stained glass. We do not make pink ribbons. We make other colors to fit the cancers. Also, check out www.abta.org They have an on-line store that is for all brain tumors. If you can't find anything, make your own. Make t-shirts, wrist bands, etc. I would buy them and so would many of my friends who also have brain tumors. Please let us know what you discover. This is important to me. Thanks.
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I can understand why this issue is frustrating for people with other types of cancer and their families, and of course breast cancer support is particularly high profile at the moment because it's almost October - Breast Cancer Awareness Month. I agree that awareness needs to be raised about other cancers too, and while I hate 'competitive illness' I can see why there is resentment about an imbalance in awareness raising and fund raising. But the real answer to your question is 'hard work'. Bear in mind that breast cancer awareness campaigns and BC Awareness Month started as a campaign by ordinary women, many of them with cancer, to raise awareness so that people knew the symptoms, examined themselves regularly, attended their routine mammograms etc. Enthusiastic participation and hard work by women made it grow into something nationally, then internationally, recognised (and then big business cashed in). Any group of people can start such an awareness campaign for any illness. There are other cancer awareness months, ribbons etc; but no cancer campaign has had the sheer hard work put into it that breast cancer awareness has. And all this breast cancer awareness is not 100% positive for those with breast cancer. I have had breast cancer and I think that there are extremely irritating things about Breast Cancer Awareness campaigning, especially Pink October as the more cynical of us call it. Support for those with a deadly disease that kills on average 33 women a day in the UK and 112 a day in the US (the only stats I have, I'm not being ethnocentric) has been turned into a marketing opportunity by big business, with around 1% of the cost of specially made pink stuff going to breast cancer charities, the rest into the retailers’ pockets. The pink fluffy stuff infuriates me, and I'm not at all 'tickled pink' by Asda's (Walmart's) trivialisation of an illness that may yet kill me. October magazines carry stories from cheerful survivors who claim to have the all-clear (there is no all-clear with breast cancer), and often say bc has changed their lives for the better - very different from anybody I know who's had breast cancer. And it has negative consequences for breast cancer patients too - I believe that the whole thing is counter-productive, that the marketing and fund-raising hype surrounding breast cancer, by trivialising a deadly disease, is leading people to believe that breast cancer is a) not very serious, certainly not as serious as many other cancers (many women with breast cancer have been told - by people who don't have it - that it's a 'good' cancer to get) and b) curable. (my neighbour said to me 'they've just about got breast cancer licked, haven't they?' Really? Why are they still cutting women's breasts off then?) I've even heard it said that it's a ‘fashionable’ or 'sexy' cancer - my sexy prosthesis and sexy scarred, one-breasted body are evidence that it's no such thing. Yes other cancers need awareness campaigns - many have them as I’ve said, but they don't receive so much support – or, crucially, have as much work put into them. I don't wear a pink ribbon and as someone in remission from breast cancer I support the Think Before You Pink and Pink Stinks! campaigns http://www.thinkbeforeyoupink.org/Pages/AboutTheCampaign.html
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