Pink Ribbon Bandanas

Pink Ribbon Bandanas Help Find Cures for Breast Cancer. For the period 2001 to 2007, cures of Breast Cancer have improved, and all Pink Ribbon Bandanas sold helps to find these cures. Today as many as 90% of females diagnosed with invasive breast cancer are still alive and fighting 5 years after being diagnosed. Much of the thanks for this go to improvements in research. Much of the credit for improvement must also go to Think Pink Ribbon bandanas sold. As the mortality rate decreases and treatment protocols improve, although Breast Cancer is more prevalent in older women, this rate has declined for women who are aged below 50 years. Current cures in the USA are mastectomy and lumpectomy which are both surgical procedures. Apart from surgery – chemotherapy, hormone therapy, radiation and hormone therapy are the most common. read more

What would be more apt for chemotherapy and/or radiation patients to wear than Pink Ribbon bandanas? Let us bear in mind that mammography screening is not a cure for Breast Cancer; it is merely a preventative measure in the detection of the disease. Actually, research believes that mammography screening has led not only to over-diagnosis and overtreatment, but also to an extraordinary increase in the frequency of ductal carcinoma in situ being diagnosed. Wear Pink Ribbon bandanas rather than support unnecessary mammography! Wearing Pink Ribbon bandanas might not detract from the fact that age and family history (genetics), play a role in the invasive form of breast cancer; we still need all the help we can get. Only 5-10% of breast cancer patients are believed to have a genetic link. All women are at risk, and therefore, not only patients should wear Pink Ribbon bandanas, we all have a duty to own one or two, and do our bit, no matter how small. read less