We made it! Another Breast Cancer Awareness Month behind us. I'm already planning for next year. Since most people think of Halloween, not cancer, when it's October, I thought we might combine the two events into a spectacular Trick or Treat for...

Is a breast cancer vaccine possible? Quoting directly from the Lifetime TV website: "Dr. Yvonne Paterson, a breast cancer survivor, is developing a possible vaccine that may put a stop to the disease that takes so many lives. The vaccine, Lovaxin B,...

What's the connection between the women's health movement of the 1970s and the pink ribbons of today? Or what's the LACK of connection? Without women fighting for choice in the 60s and 70s, we wouldn't have become empowered to demand choices in our...

When I was in treatment, I noticed a friend wearing a lovely, albeit beribboned, bracelet. Because I admired hers, she gave one to me. I wore it to chemo treatments and fingered the hearts, and they did help me strengthen my resolve to get through this...

This mock-up of Cosmo magazine was one of a series of public service ads placed at bus benches in San Francisco. Now, THAT's Real Breast Cancer Awareness!