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Going Pink For October

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the in-all-seriousness dept.

Matthew Oliphant is inviting anyone and everyone to turn their Web sites pink during October, which is National Breast Cancer Awareness month. Nearly 150 sites have done so as of this writing. And by the way, guys can get breast cancer too.

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  1. Why the focus on breast cancer? by windowpain · · Score: 4, Informative

    I lost a dear friend to breast cancer in 1998 but I think it's screwy to focus so much on it. Look at this PDF table from the National Cancer Institute. It shows that estimated deaths from digestive system cancers (136,180) will be more than triple the number of deaths from breast cancer (41,430) this year. Both figures are for both male and female deaths. Even when you look at just female deaths, digestive system cancers will kill half again as many women as breast cancer will (60,970 vs. 40,970).

    Another example of misplaced public health priorities due to the publicity machine.

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  2. Re:I'm in what else can I do? by Speare · · Score: 4, Informative
    If you are somehow GIMP-challenged to the point of not understanding the eyedropper tool, here are a few I snagged from graphics on a breast cancer site:
    • #ff99cc
    • #eeaac3
    • #f594cb
    • #f197c0
    • #fbd9e1
    • #f50f95
    The first one is a "safe 216" color, which I threw in as a bonus for the really ancient websites and video cards stuck in 256-color modes.
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