Results tagged “cancer”

Miss Bee already gave you the rundown on today's Blame-A-Thon, but we think it's an awesome event to support, so here's your second post for the day in support of @drew and #blamedrewscancer.

We do so wish this was an April Fool's yarn. We're pulling for you Steven.

                                               

(Text by Debra A.F. Seiz, photos by Karen Cornell.)

We already know that you like to put your money where your mouth is and support food-based fundraising efforts. Fortunately for you, summertime means there are plenty of opportunities to stuff your face and ease your conscience all at the same time. One of these, Fox Chase Cancer Center's 16th Annual Plain & Fancy: A Taste of the Greater Delaware Valley (a mouthful in and of itself!), happens next weekend.

In the 1970s health activists were yelling about their mothers’ breasts. Women were reluctant to check regularly for lumps, let alone have mammograms to screen for breast cancer. A tumor in a woman's breast was like a tumor in her entire womanhood, especially when oncologists were predominantly male. The outcry about breasts was an uncomfortable, necessary step that empowered women to take care of them. Today there are pink ribbons, breast cancer walks in October, and a sharp increase in early detection, which has led to an increase in survival rates.

Who hasn’t secretly wished for a double? You could send them to do your dirty work, try out new haircuts on them, or be two places at once. No one would know the difference. Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen fooled audiences into thinking they were a singular, hackneyed Michelle Tanner for years. As the decades and tabloids have revealed, they are in fact different people, though not by much.