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Want to make a difference toward breast cancer prevention in Massachusetts? Do you have a few minutes to make a phone call or send an email and/or letter several times a year? Become part of our advocacy network and join thousands of volunteers across the state in making your voice heard! As a volunteer in [...]
31 Days Campaign
In October we turned the conversation from Breast Cancer Awareness to “31 DAYS Towards Breast Cancer Prevention” See Post Archives for more information about our campaign! When MBCC held it’s first rally to end the epidemic of breast cancer in 1991, we challenged the notion that breast cancer was an inevitable disease. Thousands of women, men [...]
Against the Tide
Make sure to check out our 2011 ATT Results page to view the top fundraisers and competitive winners at the 2011 Against the Tide in Brewster or Hopkinton! Thank you to everyone who helped raise almost $140,000 for MBCC! GET READY FOR 2012! June 23, 2012 DCR’s Hopkinton State Park ********* August 18, 2012 [...]
Advocate Spotlight
The Politics of Cancer Submitted by Margo Simon Golden, President, Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition. We would all like to believe that an illness as widespread and often devastating as cancer would somehow be immune from politics. Unfortunately, another example of the ”politics of cancer” was displayed as Susan G. Komen for the Cure, influenced by their fear of lost financial and political support from the right, attempted to defund part of Planned Parenthood’s health services to women. This is not new. Well meaning organizations are often influenced by outside factors which divert them from their true and stated mission: to rid the world of cancer. Large organizations often end up compromising themselves and their mission by aligning with companies that are part of the problem and not the solution. We have seen this before. For example, the American Cancer Society has a history of developing public policies and programs that demonstrate a problematic association...
News and Blog
Missteps by Komen
Susan G. Komen for the Cure is the largest breast cancer charity in the world, having taken in over $1.9 billion since 1982, according to information on their website. Komen’s focus has been on early detection of breast cancer through increasing access to mammography. It also focuses on research on treatment of breast cancer. The one thing that Komen does not focus on is the causes of breast cancer. I feel that this is misguided. Why spend so much money on detecting and treating breast...
Institute of Medicine’s “Breast Cancer and the Environment: A Life Course Approach”
You may have heard of an Institute of Medicine (IOM) report released recently, Breast Cancer and the Environment: A Life Course Approach, discussing environmental impacts on breast cancer risk. The Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition is encouraged by the findings of the report – evidence that MBCC has long supported – recognizing the need to further research the role that environmental toxins play in breast cancer risk. MBCC calls for further emphasis on the need to forward health...
Holiday Festival
The 14th Annual Festival of Giving Trees is a display of beautifully decorated trees. The event opened on December 1st and will run through Sunday, December 4th. Over 100 trees are decorated in the spirit of hope and remembrance. Some are playful, full of toys, a few with traditional Christmas messages, even some with cookies. Each tree’s decorations and the gifts beneath them are being raffled off on Sunday afternoon. This is a community-wide event to bring your family, friends,...
Prevention Continues
We began our 31 Days Towards Breast Cancer Prevention campaign talking about the need to change the conversation during Breast Cancer Awareness Month from awareness towards action for breast cancer prevention. Why? We are all aware of breast cancer, know far too many women and men affected by the disease and spend the month of October in near celebration of a devastating disease. Despite these awareness activities we still see rates of the disease that have doubled over the past...
Cleaning with Bubbles?
Scrub your dishes clean with products that don’t contain endocrine disrupting fragrances by trading your petroleum based soap for a castile, glycerine-based, or other naturally derived liquid soap. In fact, did you know that “bubbles” are added to most cleaning products as an aesthetic feature, they don’t actually help you clean better but, make you think that your products is cleaning better. You can check the safety of the products you regularly use by checking...
