Barbara Brenner
Barbara Brenner
Barbara Brennerwas a renowned American breast cancer activist, after activist and legal work on several other causes, including anti-Vietnam War activism, women's rights, civil rights, and employment discrimination. She led the organization Breast Cancer Action, which critiqued orthodoxy regarding the cancer, with which she had been diagnosed in 1993 and 1996. She was partners for 38 years with Suzanne Lampert, her partner since graduate school at Princeton University. She died at the age of 61 on May 10, 2013...
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The medical community has us believing that if you get a yearly mammogram, and that mammogram does not show cancer, you're cancer-free. I'm proof that that's not the case.
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One third of all women who are diagnosed with breast cancer have found the tumor themselves.
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I have no doubt that there are things in the environment to blame. I don't know what they are, and nobody else does either.
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This set of recommendations, which looks at all the research that's available, says what we've been saying for a long time: The marketing of genetic testing is far too broad.
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When companies put pink ribbons on their products, they're no longer just selling a sweater or a watch -- they're selling the expectation that buying their product is going to make a difference in the fight against breast cancer. But the 'portion of the proceeds' that goes to breast cancer is all too often minuscule in comparison.