Breast cancer: Not all pretty pink
Excerpt:(CNN) -- Pink is Amy Wadsworth's favorite color. But when she entered a wig store decorated pink for October -- Breast Cancer Month -- in 2010, she felt that the "awareness" display was revolting. She was undergoing chemotherapy at the time for breast cancer and had just buzzed off her hair in anticipation of losing it all. "It doesn't feel like a pretty pink ribbon, is what it kind of amounted to. There's nothing pretty about this," says Wadsworth, 31, of South Thomaston, Maine, remembering her cancer journey. "It's traumatizing. It leaves a little hollow place." Now that Wadsworth is cancer-free and feeling healthy after seven rounds of chemo and a double-mastectomy, her attitude flipped. She loves the prominent appreciation for breast cancer awareness this month and hopes to one day have her own breast cancer fund to focus on holistic treatments. Awareness is a tricky thing.
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| -0.205093 | "The clear message is that breast cancer is not a single, or a simple, story," Friese said. ... |
| -0.253285 | "The clear message is that breast cancer is not a single, or a simple, story," Friese said. "Depending on the stage and the involvement of the tumor, the story could be very different for women at various stages of breast cancer." |
| 0.0215588 | "What you want to do is get everyone on the same playing field," Friese said. ... |
| -0.288357 | "There's probably a group of women for whom the prominence of the topic that is not something that they cherish," Friese said. ... |
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| 0.207182 | "The fact is that awareness does not stop cancer," she said. ... |
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| -0.357624 | "It doesn't feel like a pretty pink ribbon, is what it kind of amounted to. There's nothing pretty about this," says Wadsworth, ... |
| -0.280059 | "It doesn't feel like a pretty pink ribbon, is what it kind of amounted to. There's nothing pretty about this," says Wadsworth, 31, of South Thomaston, Maine, remembering her cancer journey. "It's traumatizing. It leaves a little hollow place." |
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"Awareness" is a tricky thing. Some women who have been through breast cancer embrace the outreach activities this month. But not everyone feels the ribbon is doing the job it set out to do.
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