13 ordspråk av Barbara Brenner
Barbara Brenner
bad girls of breast cancer.
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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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I have no idea what's going to happen to me. This is a disease that can and does happen at any time. It's not five years ? and a cure,
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It's called 'pinkwashing,' ... You say you care about people's lives but you're doing things that make them sick at the same time. We're saying clean up your products or stop saying you care about breast cancer.
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One third of all women who are diagnosed with breast cancer have found the tumor themselves.
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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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There's plenty of awareness. The question is, what do we do now? The answer has to be something other than to shop.
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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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We're very concerned that the ultimate result will be disease substitution instead of disease prevention. This whole approach to prevention involves treating risk as a disease, which means a lot more people will be getting a lot more drugs, and we don't know the long-term results of this.
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What might we know about these chemicals 20 years from now? ... We can't continue to pretend that as long as we don't know about any risks, we don't have a problem.
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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, ... Pink Ribbon marketing efforts make a significant difference in corporate bottom lines. But the 'portion of the proceeds' that goes to breast cancer is all too often miniscule in comparison.
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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.
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With all of these campaigns, people have to start asking some very serious questions about what's happening so they know where their money is going,
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