Do you have Pink Ribbon Fatigue?

Someone has already stated we need a famous person/spokesman to have a loved one or themselves have cc and only then will the disease be recognized and research started. It seems strange that the only time we get help for causes is when a rich or famous person draws attention to the problem. Only then do people take action to help

I agree with Marion. I sometimes think, well maybe CC is rare so we can’t hope to be the loudest shouter, but what about pancreatic cancer, and other gastro-intestinal cancers. They are so often serious, and yet still we see pink every where. Just today I saw a charm for my bracelet which is pink with the logo – I bet most of the money from each charm sold doesn’t go to research.

Unfortunately, CC becomes more well known as it’s incidence rises. When my grandmother died of CC in the 80s they didn’t even name it – even my mum just knew it as ‘one of the rare liver cancers’. Now we can say it and people know.

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I cannot agree more with some of the above. Granted every cuase needs a voice – it just frustrates me to no end that our voice is so weak and every time I see a pick ribbon it just bothers me to think that breast cancer is the absolute worst.

Rick

I totally agree with what everyone has said. I am so sick of PINK!

So good to hear the frustation. I have a lot of guilt about these feelings. These are not feelings easily shared, being cancer victims you want hope for all,. We all know it could happen to us and we would appreciate the love and support. Just hard to understand a cancer with a pretty good survival rate now gets so much support and a cancer with such a barely non existant survival rate gets next to none.
Thanks for the cc site to help us express our “guilt thoughts” Cathy

I remember when I lived in Scotland, you could buy a pink mop and some percent would go to breast cancer charity. In Sweden, the pink is everywhere now too. I think of all the money raised in all these countries in October and just become sick.

My favorite aunt is a breast cancer survivor, so I do appreciate the strides made there. BUT, I find the whole thing disgusting now. It is actually something that has made me so hot, I have needed to talk about it with my psychologist. I would not doubt that between all the pink campaigns throughout the US and Western Europe and all those breast cancer charities that over a billion dollars is raised annually. Where does that money go? Who knows. That is why I am so proud of the CC Foundation and its first ASCO grant.

Kris

Lisa, somewhere here I posted about my frustration regarding this very topic. It was a year or so ago. Whenever the telemarketers call my home wanting me to donate, I simply state that my belief is there are many other cancers out there that do not get the funding they need.