How to Help Someone With Cancer (Skip the Pink Ribbon)
Every October the country turns pink, and metastatic breast cancer research gets a sliver of the money. In this solo episode of Kicking Cancer's Ass, Joelle Kaufman asks one question about pink ribbons, cancer gifts, and every offer of help: who is this for?
Joelle is a BRCA1 carrier and triple negative breast cancer survivor, the author of Crushing the Cancer Curveball, and the host of Kicking Cancer's Ass. She was diagnosed the day before her planned preventive mastectomy and DIEP flap reconstruction.
She covers pinkwashing and the analysis that found about 7% of $15 billion in breast…
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