Pink Ribbons - Breast Cancer
 

In an effort to bring awareness to breast cancer, pink ribbons are everywhere. College football fields are adorned with them and the players even wear pink socks. This is all well & good, but you don't see anything for testicular cancer awareness do you? Maybe we could have a blue ribbon with 2 balls hanging from it? Or prostate cancer - we could have a brown ribbon?

just sitting here pondering.........

Fuck cancer

But I'm always amazed at the disproportionate attention breast cancer gets.

Heart disease is the number one killer of women. It isn't even close.

Like so many things, it's not just one-or-the-other...

Lance Armstrong headed a major effort to publicize testicular cancer.
But campaigns need to maintain momentum to keep the $ flowing.
Somehow, not a lot of men want to go public with their male-only diseases.

Support middle finger cancer sufferers :flipbird:

and we definitely needed scented brown wristbands to show our support for the fight against bowel and colon cancer.

http://www.cellar.org/showthread.php?t=23752

I want to change the ribbon color to purple.

purple is for anti-gay-teen-bullying

Bad Mother Moment
 

Driving my kids to swim practice last night, two cars in front of us had pink ribbons with the "hole" in the shape of a cross and the word jesus on them. I should not have said "Oh look, they want Jesus to come back with boobs!". I just shouldn'ta

Yeah, but it's never stopped you before. :haha:

Doesn't everyone?

The gays get all the good colors...

They need to start looking at ovarian cancer: the least detectable most insidious of them all. One day you just find out you have it, after months of it's sneaking and hiding in your most inner parts, and good luck by then. :(

I find this incredibly ironic. Commercials about men with floppy dicks, taking pills to unflop their floppy dicks...seems to be no shame in that, nor lack of funding to find more and better ways to keep mens dicks from a'floppin'. [/soapbox]

Good post Bruce! :thumb:

xoB, that's quite discouraging... but that was Pauling (d. 1994 ?)

Things have changed a lot since then.
Screening, diagnosis. and treatments for almost all
forms of cancer have actually improved in these past 15-20 years.
And even though I feel that Nixon was politically evil, I do give him credit
for starting the "war on cancer" and the NCI in the early 1970's.
So I am much more optimistic.

It's just that the public wants to believe that "CANCER" is just one thing
and some magic bullet is going to come along and cure it once and forever.
With just a few exceptions, cancer is not an infectious disease that spreads through the population.
It's a highly individual disease that needs a highly personal intervention for prevention, screening, and treatment
and for the affected person who has to go it alone, it is tragic.

According to the big graphic, 1 in 4 people will die from cancer. OK. That's serious. But what are the other 3 out of 4 going to die of? It's a cancer graphic, so they don't tell you, but the answer is heart disease and stroke.

Heart disease and stroke are the things you should be looking for. Keep those arteries clean.