October is breast cancer awareness month, which means that everything from street posts to hair products to storefront windows are decked in pink. Women and men don ‘save the tatas’ t-shirts and wristbands, all in the name of breast cancer awareness. We are aware of breast cancer as a disease but we are unaware of…
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Over the last week our Facebook newsfeeds have been full to the brim with ‘no makeup selfies.’ While they’ve spawned some serious debates around awareness-raising versus narcissism, they’ve also managed to raise a whole lot of money for cancer research. In just 48 hours, Cancer Research UK received over $3.6 million dollars in donations. After…
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In a generous move from both hosts, the Today Show’s Lisa Wilkinson and Georgie Gardner allowed themselves to be filmed having mammograms. Last week, Wilkinson admitted that she felt ‘like a fraud’ because it had been three years since her last mammogram. As an ambassador for the National Breast Cancer Foundation for almost ten…
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