When a friend pulled Harvey Singer in for a bear hug one weekend in Chicago in 2008, a shooting pain went through Singer’s chest. A couple weeks earlier, Singer had noticed a change on the side of his left nipple but had shrugged it off as the result of being “old and a little out…
Evelyn Lauder, who pioneered the pink ribbon as the symbol of breast cancer awareness, has died. Lauder, the daughter-in-law of cosmetics queen Estee Lauder, died of ovarian cancer Saturday at her home in Manhattan. She was 75. Lauder was married to Leonard Lauder, the oldest son of Estee and chairman emeritus of the makeup corporation….
A dear, and shockingly young, friend of mine was diagnosed with advanced breast cancer last year. She has undergone chemotherapy and surgery, and is now dealing with radiation and a second round of chemo in advance of more surgery. I’d do anything I could to support her and the scientific work that might one day…
Dear Breast Cancer: I am aware. It’s not because of the extremely effective marketing, with the pink ribbon campaigns. It’s because I lived in your house, and you lived in mine. It seems that my mother’s breast cancer was just bad luck, and not genetic. Even if my mother didn’t have one of the genetic…
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