More - Barbara Brenner Quotes

We're very concerned that the ultimate result will be disease substitution instead of disease prevention. This whole approach to prevention involves treating risk as a disease, which means a lot more people will be getting a lot more drugs, and we don't know the long-term results of this.

Barbara Brenner

 Disease

When companies put pink ribbons on their products, they're no longer just selling a sweater or a watch - they're selling the expectation that buying their product is going to make a difference in the fight against breast cancer, ... Pink Ribbon marketing efforts make a significant difference in corporate bottom lines. But the 'portion of the proceeds' that goes to breast cancer is all too often miniscule in comparison.

Barbara Brenner

 

When companies put pink ribbons on their products, they're no longer just selling a sweater or a watch -- they're selling the expectation that buying their product is going to make a difference in the fight against breast cancer. But the 'portion of the proceeds' that goes to breast cancer is all too often minuscule in comparison.

Barbara Brenner

 

This set of recommendations, which looks at all the research that's available, says what we've been saying for a long time: The marketing of genetic testing is far too broad.

Barbara Brenner

 Research

One third of all women who are diagnosed with breast cancer have found the tumor themselves.

Barbara Brenner

 Cancer

bad girls of breast cancer.

Barbara Brenner

 Cancer

The medical community has us believing that if you get a yearly mammogram, and that mammogram does not show cancer, you're cancer-free. I'm proof that that's not the case.

Barbara Brenner

 Cancer

I have no doubt that there are things in the environment to blame. I don't know what they are, and nobody else does either.

Barbara Brenner

 Doubt