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How to Celebrate Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Pro football shows its support for breast cancer research. (Doug Pensinger/Getty Images) As the orange and black Halloween season gets underway, don’t forget to think pink this October. This month...

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Judge Rules Against Breast Cancer Gene Patent

A U.S. judge struck down patents on the breast cancer genes. (Kristin Duvall/Getty Images) Stuff Mom Never Told You listeners from way back when might remember a podcast on breast cancer genes known as...

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Don’t Think Pink for Breast Cancer

(Doug Pensinger/Getty Images) National Breast Cancer Awareness Month doesn’t take place until October, when the pink and Halloween orange will duke it out for color supremacy (I’d put my cash on pink,...

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America’s Preeminent Post-Mastectomy Tattoo Artist

One woman’s post-bilateral mastectomy tattoo. (The Tattoo Page/Facebook) Philadelphia-based tattoo artist Vinnie Myers only inks one kind of tattoo these days. Seeing at least three clients per day,...

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Nipple-Darkening Tattoos Are Britain’s New “Beauty Craze”

British women are paying for temporary nipple-darkening tattoos. (Ralf Nau/Thinkstock) First came vajazzling, with women (and some men) paying aestheticians to glue crystals around their pubic area,...

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The Neurologist Who Figured Out Familial Breast Cancer

This is what metastic breast cancer looks like. (Flickr/euthman) There’s a spot in the human brain named for Pierre Paul Broca, and if you’re reading this post out loud, you’re using it. Discovered by...

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