Download or read book Behind the Pink Ribbon written by P. J. Ledar and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pink Ribbons Inc written by Samantha King and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The commercialization of the breast cancer movement is challenged in this analysis of how breast cancer has been transformed from a stigmatized disease and individual tragedy to a market-driven industry of survivorship.
Download or read book Pink Ribbon Blues written by Gayle A. Sulik and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012-10-18 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the hidden costs of the pink ribbon as an industry and analyzes the social impact on women living with breast cancer -- the stereotypes and the stigmas.
Download or read book The Pink Ribbon Diet written by Mary Flynn and published by Da Capo Lifelong Books. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a study funded by the Susan G. Komen for the Cure -- Foundation, Dr. Mary Flynn researched the effects of an olive-oil-and-plant-based diet on overweight women who had previously undergone treatment for invasive breast cancer. Now, she reveals her findings in The Pink Ribbon Diet. Not only is this program more effective than the National Cancer Institute's recommended low-fat diet, but it is also a diet that women find more satisfying and can thereby sustain for life. The Pink Ribbon Diet features 150 recipes that naturally emphasize Mediterranean foods with nutrients thought to lower breast-cancer risk and foods that improve biomarkers, indicators of risk. This diet has been effective in helping women who have had breast cancer and those at risk of getting it to avoid unhealthy weight gain and safeguard their health.
Download or read book Behind the Pink Ribbon written by Melissa Ann Adams and published by . This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melissa Adams was 31 years old when she was diagnosed with stage 2A invasive ductal carcinoma. Behind the Pink Ribbon takes you through Melissa's breast cancer journey. She shares the details of finding her lump, receiving the diagnosis of breast cancer, the endless doctor's appointment, 11 different surgeries, treatment, and complicating issues that followed. In this tell-all book, Melissa shares her real and raw rollercoaster of emotions related to her diagnosis, the treatments, and the changes to her body. She opens up about having the BRCA2 mutation from a biological father that walked out of her life when she was an infant. Melissa shares her frustration with the lack of resources and becoming a voice and an advocate for young women with breast cancer. She opens up about the lessons she has learned through cancer and how cancer became one of her most important teachers in life. Melissa talks about dating while dealing with cancer. She shares her story of ultimately finding the love of her life, who taught her that true unconditional love exists and in the process taught her how to love herself again. Melissa takes you through her journey of finding herself again, creating her new "normal" after breast cancer, and finding happiness.
Download or read book Reform Pinktober written by Joely A. Serino and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Reform Pinktober? Everyone is aware of breast cancer. Late September rolls around and companies are foaming at the mouth to launch any and all pink products. October is a long winded advertisement for breast cancer. Many other cancer patients and survivors of other cancers join in the fatigue knowing that when their awareness month happens, there's not a fraction of the celebration. Why does all of the pink feel so perky? Ask any breast cancer patient or survivor about how they feel about the pink, and most will tell you they are overwhelmed. Nauseous. Anxious.We are more than pink ribbons. We are real humans with authentic stories. How each person found their lump, the varying treatment plans, the way our lives have forever been scarred- outside and inside from this horrible disease, is more than any pink ribbon pinned on a person can describe. Reform Pinktober aims to transform what we know as Breast Cancer Awareness month into authentic storytelling about the very real people impacted by this disease. Our hope is that, even after the last banana dawning a pink ribbon sticker is bought off the shelf, each and every day outside of October is an awareness of what cancer stole from our lives. We reform pinktober to the reality we face everyday. Real people. Real stories. Real impact. We are more than the pink you see in October.
Download or read book Promise Me written by Nancy G. Brinker and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suzy and Nancy Goodman were more than sisters. They were best friends, confidantes, and partners in the grand adventure of life. For three decades, nothing could separate them. Not college, not marriage, not miles. Then Suzy got sick. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1977; three agonizing years later, at thirty-six, she died. It wasn’t supposed to be this way. The Goodman girls were raised in postwar Peoria, Illinois, by parents who believed that small acts of charity could change the world. Suzy was the big sister—the homecoming queen with an infectious enthusiasm and a generous heart. Nancy was the little sister—the tomboy with an outsized sense of justice who wanted to right all wrongs. The sisters shared makeup tips, dating secrets, plans for glamorous fantasy careers. They spent one memorable summer in Europe discovering a big world far from Peoria. They imagined a long life together—one in which they’d grow old together surrounded by children and grandchildren. Suzy’s diagnosis shattered that dream. In 1977, breast cancer was still shrouded in stigma and shame. Nobody talked about early detection and mammograms. Nobody could even say the words “breast” and “cancer” together in polite company, let alone on television news broadcasts. With Nancy at her side, Suzy endured the many indignities of cancer treatment, from the grim, soul-killing waiting rooms to the mistakes of well-meaning but misinformed doctors. That’s when Suzy began to ask Nancy to promise. To promise to end the silence. To promise to raise money for scientific research. To promise to one day cure breast cancer for good. Big, shoot-for-the-moon promises that Nancy never dreamed she could fulfill. But she promised because this was her beloved sister. I promise, Suzy. . . . Even if it takes the rest of my life. Suzy’s death—both shocking and senseless—created a deep pain in Nancy that never fully went away. But she soon found a useful outlet for her grief and outrage. Armed only with a shoebox filled with the names of potential donors, Nancy put her formidable fund-raising talents to work and quickly discovered a groundswell of grassroots support. She was aided in her mission by the loving tutelage of her husband, restaurant magnate Norman Brinker, whose dynamic approach to entrepreneurship became Nancy’s model for running her foundation. Her account of how she and Norman met, fell in love, and managed to achieve the elusive “true marriage of equals” is one of the great grown-up love stories among recent memoirs. Nancy’s mission to change the way the world talked about and treated breast cancer took on added urgency when she was herself diagnosed with the disease in 1984, a terrifying chapter in her life that she had long feared. Unlike her sister, Nancy survived and went on to make Susan G. Komen for the Cure into the most influential health charity in the country and arguably the world. A pioneering force in cause-related marketing, SGK turned the pink ribbon into a symbol of hope everywhere. Each year, millions of people worldwide take part in SGK Race for the Cure events. And thanks to the more than $1.5 billion spent by SGK for cutting-edge research and community programs, a breast cancer diagnosis today is no longer a death sentence. In fact, in the time since Suzy’s death, the five-year survival rate for breast cancer has risen from 74 percent to 98 percent. Promise Me is a deeply moving story of family and sisterhood, the dramatic “30,000-foot view” of the democratization of a disease, and a soaring affirmative to the question: Can one person truly make a difference?
Download or read book The Undying written by Anne Boyer and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE IN GENERAL NONFICTION "The Undying is a startling, urgent intervention in our discourses about sickness and health, art and science, language and literature, and mortality and death. In dissecting what she terms 'the ideological regime of cancer,' Anne Boyer has produced a profound and unforgettable document on the experience of life itself." —Sally Rooney, author of Normal People "Anne Boyer’s radically unsentimental account of cancer and the 'carcinogenosphere' obliterates cliche. By demonstrating how her utterly specific experience is also irreducibly social, she opens up new spaces for thinking and feeling together. The Undying is an outraged, beautiful, and brilliant work of embodied critique." —Ben Lerner, author of The Topeka School A week after her forty-first birthday, the acclaimed poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. For a single mother living paycheck to paycheck who had always been the caregiver rather than the one needing care, the catastrophic illness was both a crisis and an initiation into new ideas about mortality and the gendered politics of illness. A twenty-first-century Illness as Metaphor, as well as a harrowing memoir of survival, The Undying explores the experience of illness as mediated by digital screens, weaving in ancient Roman dream diarists, cancer hoaxers and fetishists, cancer vloggers, corporate lies, John Donne, pro-pain ”dolorists,” the ecological costs of chemotherapy, and the many little murders of capitalism. It excoriates the pharmaceutical industry and the bland hypocrisies of ”pink ribbon culture” while also diving into the long literary line of women writing about their own illnesses and ongoing deaths: Audre Lorde, Kathy Acker, Susan Sontag, and others. A genre-bending memoir in the tradition of The Argonauts, The Undying will break your heart, make you angry enough to spit, and show you contemporary America as a thing both desperately ill and occasionally, perversely glorious. Includes black-and-white illustrations
Download or read book Impressions Behind the Pink Ribbon written by Norma Woody and published by Belle Isle Books. This book was released on 2015-08-24 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following her diagnosis with an aggressive form of metastatic breast cancer, Norma Woody found herself the bearer of two seemingly unendurable burdens: the knowledge that she was dying, and the realization that too much of the life she had left would be spent in solitude and pain. Yet as the door to her physical life was closing, a window to her inner life was flung open. In her time spent alone wrestling with thoughts and disappointments, Norma found solace in writing, and was able to explore her creative mind and unlock feelings long denied her. In the process, she plumbed new depths of forgiveness, releasing expectations and uncovering within herself a greater childlike wonder for the world and a deeper respect for the God she had always believed in. Impressions Behind the Pink Ribbon is her record of that journey through hardship to peace, and it stands as a gift bestowed in unending faith and love.
Download or read book Better Than a Pink Ribbon written by Gabriel Insler and published by . This book was released on 2016-08 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A kid's book of advice to other kids who have a parent with cancer from a kid who has been there.
Download or read book Radical written by Kate Pickert and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kate Pickert worked as a health-care journalist and knew medical treatment well, but it all changed when she was diagnosed with an aggressive type of breast cancer at age 35. Pickert used her journalistic skills to identify the cultural, scientific, and historical forces shaping the lives of breast-cancer patients in the modern age.
Download or read book The Cartiers written by Francesca Cartier Brickell and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A dynamic group biography studded with design history and high-society dash . . . [This] elegantly wrought narrative bears the Cartier hallmark.”—The Economist The “astounding” (André Leon Talley) story of the family behind the Cartier empire and the three brothers who turned their grandfather’s humble Parisian jewelry store into a global luxury icon—as told by a great-granddaughter with exclusive access to long-lost family archives “Ms. Cartier Brickell has done her grandfather proud.”—The Wall Street Journal The Cartiers is the revealing tale of a jewelry dynasty—four generations, from revolutionary France to the 1970s. At its heart are the three Cartier brothers whose motto was “Never copy, only create” and who made their family firm internationally famous in the early days of the twentieth century, thanks to their unique and complementary talents: Louis, the visionary designer who created the first men’s wristwatch to help an aviator friend tell the time without taking his hands off the controls of his flying machine; Pierre, the master dealmaker who bought the New York headquarters on Fifth Avenue for a double-stranded natural pearl necklace; and Jacques, the globe-trotting gemstone expert whose travels to India gave Cartier access to the world’s best rubies, emeralds, and sapphires, inspiring the celebrated Tutti Frutti jewelry. Francesca Cartier Brickell, whose great-grandfather was the youngest of the brothers, has traveled the world researching her family’s history, tracking down those connected with her ancestors and discovering long-lost pieces of the puzzle along the way. Now she reveals never-before-told dramas, romances, intrigues, betrayals, and more. The Cartiers also offers a behind-the-scenes look at the firm’s most iconic jewelry—the notoriously cursed Hope Diamond, the Romanov emeralds, the classic panther pieces—and the long line of stars from the worlds of fashion, film, and royalty who wore them, from Indian maharajas and Russian grand duchesses to Wallis Simpson, Coco Chanel, and Elizabeth Taylor. Published in the two-hundredth anniversary year of the birth of the dynasty’s founder, Louis-François Cartier, this book is a magnificent, definitive, epic social history shown through the deeply personal lens of one legendary family.
Download or read book Strength Renewed written by Shirley Corder and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing can sap a person's strength and hope quite like a cancer diagnosis--unless it is the energy-stealing chemotherapy and surgeries faced in the fight against cancer. But one can find hope and strength in the pages of Scripture and in the experience of someone who has been there. Strength Renewed is an encouraging devotional for those living in the valley of cancer. Meditations combine Scripture and stories from the author's own experience and can be read in sequential order to move the reader through a typical cancer journey from diagnosis through treatment. Each devotion also stands on its own, so readers can go directly to the entry that speaks to their need. Each devotional includes a short prayer and a Scripture verse for encouragement.
Download or read book Malignant written by S. Lochlann Jain and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cancer can kill: this fact makes it concrete. Still, it's a devious knave. Nearly every American will experience it up-close and all too personally, wondering why the billions of research dollars thrown at the word haven't exterminated it from the English language. Like a sapper diffusing a bomb, Jain unscrambles the emotional, bureaucratic, medical, and scientific tropes that create the thing we call cancer. Scientists debate even the most basic facts about the disease, while endlessly generated, disputed, population data produce the appearance of knowledge. Jain takes the vacuum at the center of cancer seriously and demonstrates the need to understand cancer as a set of relationships--economic, sentimental, medical, personal, ethical, institutional, statistical. Malignant analyzes the peculiar authority of the socio-sexual psychopathologies of body parts; the uneven effects of expertise and power; the potentially cancerous consequences of medical procedures such as IVF; the huge industrial investments that manifest themselves as bone-cold testing rooms; the legal mess of medical malpractice law; and the teeth-grittingly jovial efforts to smear makeup and wigs over the whole messy problem of bodies spiraling into pain and decay. Malignant examines the painful cognitive dissonances produced by the ways a culture that has relished dazzling success in every conceivable arena have twisted one of its staunchest failures into an economic triumph. The intractable foil to American achievement, cancer hands us -- on a silver platter and ready for Jain's incisively original dissection -- our sacrifice to the American Dream"--
Download or read book Beyond Pink Ribbons written by Anthony Val and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-12-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Beyond Pink Ribbons: Unmasking the Reality of Breast Cancer" is a powerful and eye-opening exploration of the unvarnished truth behind breast cancer. In this 94-page book, readers are taken on a transformative journey that transcends the superficial veneer of awareness campaigns and confronts the stark realities faced by those battling this disease. This book delves deep into the multifaceted facets of breast cancer, shedding light on its emotional, physical, and social impacts. The author provides expert insights and firsthand accounts, offering a candid portrayal of the disease's impact on patients and their families. "Beyond Pink Ribbons" uncovers the pain, struggles, and courage that often remain concealed behind the symbolic ribbon. One of the most compelling aspects of this book is the inclusion of real-life stories. Readers are introduced to individuals who have faced breast cancer head-on, showcasing their resilience and determination. These narratives serve as a beacon of hope, emphasizing the importance of early detection and support, and highlighting the triumph of the human spirit over adversity. The benefits of "Beyond Pink Ribbons" extend beyond awareness. This book equips readers with a comprehensive understanding of breast cancer, making it a valuable resource for patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals. It promotes empathy, knowledge, and a call to action. It empowers readers to become advocates for breast cancer patients and encourages them to support ongoing research and early detection efforts. To be part of this critical movement, we invite you to take action. Share this book with your friends and family, engage in open discussions about breast cancer, and become a voice for those affected by this disease. Join the campaign for increased awareness and support for breast cancer research. Together, we can unmask the reality of breast cancer and make a meaningful difference in the lives of countless individuals. It's time to move "Beyond Pink Ribbons" and into a world where understanding and action bring hope to those touched by breast cancer.
Download or read book A Darker Ribbon written by Ellen Leopold and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2000-10-17 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first cultural history of breast cancer, this book examines the social attitudes and medical treatments that together defined the modern relationship between women with the disease and their doctors. At the heart of the book are two unpublished correspondences-one between Barbara Mueller, a woman diagnosed with breast cancer eighty years ago, and her surgeon, William Steward Halsted, father of the radical mastectomy, and the other between Rachel Carson, who was writing Silent Spring as she was battling breast cancer, and her personal physician George Crile, Jr.
Download or read book Breast Cancer written by Greg Anderson and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The founder of the Cancer Recovery Foundation presents an essential guide to facing breast cancer with a combination of healing tactics. While recovery and survival rates for breast cancer have improved, the shock and confusion that comes with a diagnosis remains overwhelming, as does choosing a plan of treatment. With so many options out there, it’s difficult to know the best option for you. This is where an integrated approach comes in. By using a variety of tools, you maximize opportunity for healing. As a recognized pioneer in the field of integrated cancer care, Greg Anderson offers critical information and advice about the major issues facing breast cancer patients. As someone who has been a cancer patient himself, he also knows the emotional turmoil and stress a diagnosis can cause. Because of this, he guides readers toward making a concrete, comprehensive recovery plan that combines nutrition, exercise, mind/body approaches, and social support along with conventional medical care. Breast Cancer: 50 Essential Things to Do offers:A guide to health and healing from one of the world’s leading wellness authoritiesAn approach to recovery that calls into question Western medicine’s tendency to overtreatAdvice for cultivating physical, emotional, and spiritual health
