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Breast Cancer Awareness (US, 1996) |
Breast Cancer (Australia) |
Proposed Breast Cancer Research*NEW* Breast Cancer Research: |
When the book: Our Bodies, Our Selves by the Boston Women's Health Book Collective, first appeared in 1970, it tore the "white sheet" of the patriarchal medical industry off women's healthcare. With OBOS & it successors in hand, women have become empowered to pursue the very best in healthcare, particularly in the areas of reproduction technology, auto-immune diseaes, and breast & gynecological cancers.
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Breast Cancer Awareness (US, 1996) |
Breast Cancer (Australia) |
Proposed Breast Cancer Research*NEW* Breast Cancer Research: |
The introduction of the Breast Cancer Awareness stamp & the new Breast Cancer Research stamp was big news not only in the women health community, but the philately community as well. Click here for a list articles. Also check out Senator Dianne Feinstein's web site, which features speeches, articles, & legislation about the new Breast Cancer Research stamp.
Get the very latest news concerning Breast Cancer from University of Pennsylvania's OncoLink. Also check out the hottest art exhibit this year: Art.Rage.Us: The Art & Outrage Of Breast Cancer, SF Main Library Gallery April 24-June 14, 1998 co-sponsored by the Breast Cancer Fund.
FDCs which include multiple gynecological cancer-theme stamps. The fourth FDC is of particular interests: it features Dr George "Pap" Papanicolauou & advocates a yearly "Pap" smear, a procedure which has saved millions of women's lives, but is often seen as "optional" care by many HMOs.
FDCs of the 1996 US Breast Cancer Awareness Stamp.
FDCs of the 1998 US Breast Cancer Research Stamp.
For really great collection of Breast Cancer FDCs, you must check out Mike Smith's web page: http://www.in.net/~smith/BreastFDC.htm
Other Women & Health Stamps:
Anti-cancer Campaigns on Stamps
MedNet HELLAS: AIDS in Stamps
AIDS/HIV is exploding in the women's community. Get the facts from The Body: Women and AIDS
