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A fact from Breast cancer awareness appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 10 January 2011 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that wearing a pink ribbon for breast cancer awareness has been denounced as a form of feel-good slacktivism that saves no lives?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2011/January.

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Why does this article contain so many criticisms of breast cancer awareness?

These criticisms are prominent in the published reliable sources about the breast cancer movement. Many scholars and mainstream media have heavily criticized prominent aspects of the modern breast cancer awareness movement, including:

non-profit organizations that solicit donations "for research" or "for the cure" but actually spend the money mostly on non-research purposes, like support groups or advertisements;
businesses that sell cancer-themed items to "support breast cancer" without disclosing how little is ultimately donated;
media-driven stereotypes of women, especially the use of sex to promote breast cancer awareness and the reinforcement of the idea that breast cancer matters because it reduces women's sex appeal;
healthcare businesses that have over-sold the benefits of screening mammograms and downplayed its harms; and
people who expect women with breast cancer to behave a particular way, such as to act brave even when they are feeling very frightened.

Proposal to shorten the article

If possible I'd like to gain a consensus to delete the sub-sections "The she-ro" and "consequences" under the "Social role of the woman with breast cancer" section in order to shorten the article because I believe that all of the material in those sections is not appropriate for an encyclopedia, with the possible exception of the second paragraph of "consequences," which talks about how breast cancer culture is ill-equipped to deal with people who've died of breast cancer. I think that paragraph is more encyclopedic and could be slid into the "Breast cancer culture" section just below. Thanks MidnightRequestLine (talk) 07:29, 30 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, there is a lot of unencyclopedic content on this page. I think removing those sections would be a good start to shortening the article. —a thing 07:15, 30 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree. WP:NPOV says that the article should reflect the full views of high-quality sources. That means that when the academic sources (i.e., more sources than the ones cited in this article) collectively spend hundreds of pages talking about the consequences of a social attitude, then we should have a section that talks about the consequences, too. WhatamIdoing (talk) 02:16, 24 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Citation style

The old-fashioned citation style used in this article had some advantages (e.g., making it obvious to the 97% of readers who don't click any links to citations that a lot of the content comes from a handful of authors – prominent and highly reputable authors, but still only a handful of humans). However, as there were complaints about it being non-standard in the past, and as Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Deprecate parenthetical citations has just closed with a decision to deprecate the old-fashioned WP:PAREN style, I thought I'd go ahead and convert it. I doubt that anyone except me would have objected. WhatamIdoing (talk) 03:08, 10 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Free Mammograms/Saturdays in October was deleted and need help to reinstate.

Dear Robin Roberts, My name is John Jakasal. I migrated to the Land Of Opportunity from the tiny Island of Grenada from a family of Indentured Servants and Laborers at age 19, and studied x-ray technology, worked for Columbia University at Harlem Hospital Center and retired after with 41 years of service. I started as a technician and with hard work and determination I moved up the ladder to become the Chief Technical Supervisor in charge of the technical aspect of Harlem Hospital Radiology and the Generations+ Newtork ("Generation's +")other HHC hospitals (Lincoln, Metropolitan, Jacobi and other clinics) I proposed and succeeded in extending the clinical hours every week to perform Mammography till 8pm for the working women and for Breast Cancer Awareness Month of October, with the help of the Associate Dean of Columbia University and Physicians in the Harlem Hospital clinic, I was able to schedule my technical staff to perform "Free Mammography every Saturday in the month of October" in observation of Breast cancer awareness month. Sadly, a few years after my retirement in 2008, I found out that the director of Radiology dumped my hard work and free mammography was no longer performed at Harlem Hospital; but when I was appointed to attend a program for Breast Health in Mt. Vernon by the Senator Ruth Hansel Thompson, I found a table with a flyer from Lincoln Hospital and my heart leaped with joy; a few years later I called the Supervisor at Lincoln Hospital and the Director answered and said the director from Harlem Radiology stopped it; but he continued the program only the 1st Saturday in October and 1st Saturday during the month with Mother's Day

Upon retiring, I looked back on my life's journey and after visiting and chatting with my dear mother of 10 children Elizerina in a Florida Nursing Home who lived to be 95,I decided to write my memoir based on a lesson learned from the little birds, while doing my homework in the evening sunset. We had no electricity and the only tiny light in the house was ignited with 'whale oil' - daddy's whale oil lamp - he lived to be 90 and may he RIP. An excerpt of my book is available on my youtube video titled:- "Grow your wings, fly away and build your nest" - My wish at this time of my life is to help rebuild the burnt down St. Andrews Anglican School where I got the basic fundamentals of my childhood education. I had a book signing at Barnes and Noble in Yonkers in 2013 with help of the manager from the I Will Yonkers Library. With your help I am determined to REINSTATE free mammograms on Saturdays during the month of October annually in every State and maybe eventually throughout the world - I will always remember James Brown song - "It is a man's world, but it would be nothing without a woman or a girl" Ms. Roberts, please help me to reinstate Breast Cancer Free Mammography and another proposal for the "Uniform Safety Act" so that hospital workers "shall not wear uniform to and from work in order to avoid the further spread of the Covid-19 virus and will like your support to make these proposals my legacy as I plan to inspire before I expire. Please contact me asap JN2LSG@AOL.COM (lower case) or call me at (718)325-0868

Sincerely, John Jakasal Retiree NYSDOH/ASRT/ARRT Radiology — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.80.5.178 (talk) 19:57, 23 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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