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Early forties, loving life, dealing with metastatic breast cancer, and blogging with an attitude. I am fascinated by the pervasive and popular culture that seems to surround the disease of breast cancer, and this is what motivates my writing. I find much of what I observe to be completely and utterly insane and I'm not afraid to say so. It's time to move beyond pink ribbons and messages of "breast cancer awareness", and start agitating for real and meaningful action in the fight to eradicate this disease for good. Email me at cancerculture[AT]gmail[DOT]com
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  • Read the NBCC Breast Cancer Baseline Status Report
  • NBCC Advocacy Tools
  • Research your favorite charity
  • Learn how to read an IRS Form 990
  • Sign up for a study at Army of Women
  • Breast Cancer Action Toolkit
  • Check out KomenWatch

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Metastatic Breast Cancer Resources

  • Metastatic Breast Cancer Network
  • METAVivor Research & Support, Inc.
  • AdvancedBC.org
  • BCMets.org
  • Advanced Breast Cancer Support Community
  • BrainMetsBC.Org
  • The Abigail Alliance

Other Useful Links

  • American Cancer Society
  • Army of Women
  • Being Cancer
  • Breast Cancer Action
  • Breast Cancer Fund
  • Breastcancer.org
  • Cancer 101
  • Cinco Vidas Blog
  • Illnesses and Disabilities Govt Resource
  • KnowBreastCancer.org
  • National Breast Cancer Coalition
  • National Women's Health Network
  • The Annie Appleseed Project
  • Think Before You Pink
  • Women's Cancer Action
  • Young Survival Coalition

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    Tough Girls - They say there’s no such thing as bad publicity, but recently this blog, was mentioned by Huffington Post contributor Peg Aloi, in Tough Girls: Do They Sti...
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    4 years ago
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    Barbara Brenner Breast Cancer Activist Scholarship
    5 years ago
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    Using “citizen scientists” and crowdsourcing to spur medical progress
    6 years ago
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    6 years ago
  • The Accidental Amazon
    There Is No ‘After’ After Breast Cancer
    6 years ago
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    2019 Mitsubishi Lancer Ralliart
    6 years ago
  • not just about cancer
    6 years ago
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    7 years ago
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    Hack for Health and the Future of Convergent Science
    7 years ago
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    Only Kindness Makes Sense #WorldKindnessDay
    8 years ago
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    Rethinking the Use of Hormones to Ease Menopause Symptoms
    8 years ago
  • Bringing Up Goliath
    A Dog in the Sun
    8 years ago
  • Donna Peach
    8 years ago
  • Peggy Orenstein
    Why I Wasn’t Excited About the “First Black Disney Princess”
    8 years ago
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    8 years ago
  • Breast Cancer Advocate
    ASCO 2015: No change in metastatic breast cancer survival found at one Canadian institution, 1970 – 2013
    9 years ago
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    Stable Disease
    9 years ago
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    9 years ago
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    10 years ago
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    The Gift
    10 years ago
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    10 years ago
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    Mar. 18: Keynote on Moving Beyond Awareness, University of the Pacific
    10 years ago
  • Calling the Shots
    The Support Group That Went Haywire
    11 years ago
  • Being Sarah
    What comes next?
    12 years ago
  • The Carcinista
    One Year
    12 years ago
  • The Assertive Cancer Patient
  • The Daily Breast
  • The Dirty Pink UnderBelly
  • Uneasy Pink
  • Debbie's Life-is-bigger-than-Cancer Blog

Foreign Language Blogs

  • Après mon cancer du sein » cancer du sein : mieux vaut être heureuse, entourée et riche ….(French)
  • Breast Cancer Action Germany (German)
  • Gagner sur le cancer, c'est vivre avec (French)

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