Why Im proud to be a Pink Lady by Mandy Forteath

While I appreciate the fact that most people diagnosed with breast cancer adopt the pink ribbon and pink lady symbols, it would be nice if sometimes there was at least some publicity of the metastatic breast cancer ribbon which is green and pink. There is so often talk of "end of treatment" and "survivors" and "battle". For those with metastatic breast cancer there is no "end of treatment" or "survivorship". I don't "battle" with cancer. I have cancer and I deal with it.

Even when I had finished my treatment for Stage I breast cancer, I did not call myself a survivor until ten years had passed.

Now 15 years later, I have metastatic breast cancer about which most people, in the general public, are completely unaware.