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Get your free blog-mug today!
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In order to encourage our vistors to participate on our blog, Pink Ribbon will reward the first 25 new users in 2009 (active entries) with a welcome present, an original Pink Ribbon International mug (normally worth $11.99). Please sign up, fill in your name and address on the registration form and start your personal blog on the Pink Ribbon blog. Your welcome present will be send to your home address.
Our first mugs have already been shipped.
Go to the login page.
The Pink Ribbon Team
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 We specially welcome our younger visitors, members of Stardoll and other communities. We invite you to support the cause by placing hyperlinks to our Pink Ribbon website on your blogs, forums and websites.
By doing this you will help us create more awareness world wide in support of the cause.
The Pink Ribbon Team
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Metabolic Factors May Play A Role In Risk For Breast Cancer
July 1st 2009 - Physiological changes associated with the metabolic syndrome may play a role in the risk of postmenopausal breast cancer, according to study results published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. 
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Light Therapy Offers New Hope For Breast Cancer Patients
June 30th 2009 - A groundbreaking non-invasive breast cancer treatment will be unveiled at this year's Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition . Scientists led by world-renowned breast cancer expert, Mr Mo Keshtgar, are the first to use photodynamic therapy (PDT) to treat what is now the most common cancer in the UK.*
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We have recently added a new blog function to our website and still have lots of available space for bloggers. If you would like to share your thoughts, feelings, and experiences , feel free to create your own personal blog.
Latest entry:
I I worked in the Cancer Treatment Center for a major hospital when I discovered that I had breast cancer, I first felt a lump in my right breast while doing my regular breast examination. While working in the radiation department I went to the doctor and asked them if they would give me a breast exam and sure enough they also felt a lump. With that news they first thought that came to mind was that I was going to die( I know that is the first thought that everyone gets). I had a right lumpectomy done just to make sure that it hadn't spread to my lymph nodes. in which it didn't I had a mammogram done showing that it was the size of a golf ball which was in its first stage. So I went through Chemotherapy and radiation, bu during the time of my treatment I got really sick, I got so sick that I had to be admitted into the hospital, I lost my equilibrium, had 3 seizures( never had a seizure before in my life) I needed oxygen to breath, I went from weighing 30 pounds to 95 pounds. I was in such terrible pain didn't know exactly where I was or what was happening to me.
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We at Pink Ribbon are proud to welcome you to our online community. We have done our best to create a user friendly environment, through our blog, forum, and calendar. We further provide information regarding breast cancer treatment, research, and support. In addition, we are privileged to serve as an information source on healthy living. Through our cooperation with Dr. David Servan-Schreiber and Dr. Richard Beliveau we are able to provide you with new information regarding their investigation into our natural defense system and cancer. Their  books "anticancer, a new way of life" (Dr. Servan-Schreiber) and "Foods That Fight Cancer" (Dr. Beliveau/Dr. Gingras) have shed a light on new ways to not only battle breast cancer, but also fight recurrence.For more information on this new, exciting topic, visit our Anticancer section.
Sincerely,
The Pink Ribbon Team
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Special offer at our webshop
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This official Pink Ribbon International hooded sweatshirt is offered at a discount price of $37.99. The sweatshirt has the Pink Ribbon pocket logo on the front side and a Pink Ribbon shoulder logo on the back side. For the official sweatshirt or other Pink Ribbon products please visit our shop at www.pinkribbonshop.org or click here.
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Pink Ribbon has chosen Rachael Chatoor's "Standing All The Way" as the Pink Ribbon song of 2008. Rachael composed the song as a token of support for survivors and for people who have moved on, yet lived strong and well and full of love, life, and hope, while fighting cancer of any kind.
More information...
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Ambassador and Mrs. Culbertson at the Pink Ribbon Gala. Photo: American Women's Club
The American Women’s Club of the Hague (AWCH) hosted the 6th Annual Pink Ribbon Gala in Sociëteit “De Witte” in The Hague, The Netherlands on October 4th, 2008. The AWCH was the first organisation to introduce Pink Ribbon in the Netherlands in 2002. The Mistress of Ceremonies was Hague-born Ms. Frederique van der Wal. The slogan for the evening is that ‘Pink has no boundaries.’ Breast cancer does not differentiate between people based on culture, ideology or nationality. The message of inclusion and tolerance was well-received, as the gala raised awareness and Euro 305,000 to help fight this pernicious disease.
Following are the remarks of Ambassador Culbertson at the Gala:
Ambassador Culbertson speaks at the Pink Ribbon Gala
The Hague, October 4, 2008
Thank you for that kind introduction. And thank you all for joining us tonight. It is a great pleasure for me and my wife Germaine to be with you at the Pink Ribbon Gala. On this occasion, we all celebrate the nearly two decades of important work Pink Ribbon International... |
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Pink Ribbon strives to create worldwide presence. We are searching for Certified Translators who are willing to support our cause by translating our website into other languages. Please contact us at translations@pinkribbon.org .
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You can support the cause by adding a link from your website, blog or forum to the Pink Ribbon website (http://www.pinkribbon.org). Pink Ribbon strives to receive an additional 10,000 supporting links to its website before the end of this year. You can find various sized banners on the Link Pink page. We thank you for your participation with Link Pink.
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Corporate conscience belongs in a company's products not just its marketing.
Did you know that cosmetics giant Estee Lauder Inc. claims Evelyn Lauder to be the creator of the Pink Ribbon in 1992 whereas the first pink ribbons were already introduced in June 1990?
The first chapter in the history of Pink Ribbon as a symbol for breast cancer awareness can be found at the Komen Foundation's Race for The Cure, on the 16th of June 1990. At this race, held in Washington DC, the Komen Foundation handed out pink visors and pink ribbons randomly to the 8,529 walkers. A year later,in 1991, Komen distributed pink ribbons to every participant in it's New York City Race For The Cure. As from this year, the pink ribbon became the symbol for breast cancer awareness.
*"It is not surprising given their commitment to breast cancer marketing, that the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation was the first breast cancer organisation to latch on to the idea of distributing pink ribbons to every participant in its 'New York City Race for the Cure'." click here for more...
When Estee Lauder's dubious reputation is taken into account with regards to the use of parabens and phthalates in their products, the fact that Estee Lauder is currently trying to register the Pink Ribbon trademark for Europe (10th July 2008) it is even more surprising. For an overview of toxic products see the cosmetics database
On January 7th 2009 Pink Ribbon started an opposition procedure at the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market in Alicante, Spain in order to prevent Estee Lauder Inc. to acquire and monopolize the Pink Ribbon trademark.
Additionally Breaktrough Breast Cancer plc (Pink Ribbon UK) and Gerard Dugdil (Pink Ribbon Magazine UK) both from the United Kingdom and Brandconcern bv (initiator of Pink Ribbon International) from the Netherlands have started similar opposition procedures against the trademark registration attempt by Estee Lauder. All parties urge Estee Lauder to immediately withdraw its trademark depot. Nevertheless, Estee Lauder still refuses to cooperate. We will soon disclose further information on this issue.
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*Pink Ribbons, Inc.
University of Minnesota
2006, page XXIV,
by Samantha King
associate professor of kinesiology and health studies, and women's studies
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
Canada
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