Pink Ribbons Won't Get the Job Done
Submitted by Liz Schulte on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 7:17am
National Breast Cancer Coalition president Fran Visco appears in The Daily Beast to talk about advocacy, research and why we need a different approach to end breast cancer. As usual, she's right.
A Pink Rethink: Breast-Cancer Spending Comes Under the Microscope
“We get sidetracked by efforts to focus on getting every woman a mammogram. We could screen every woman in the world and we would not have stopped breast cancer,” she says. “I am not saying to stop funding for screening; however, we cannot afford to make it a main focus.”