Tag: cancer
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Breast Cancer Survivor’s Scars Are Beautifully Concealed by Tattoo Artist
Since 2010, David Allen has been tattooing women who have undergone mastectomies. Typically recreating the nipple shape, mastectomy tattoos have been around for some time. David’s work, however, uses design principles to draw attention away from the scarring by tattooing images of flowers and other flora. This process has quickly become a new, viable option…
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Artist Reimagines Disney Princesses As Breast Cancer Survivors To Raise Awareness For Breast Cancer Month
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Breast cancer remains the most common cancer among women in most developed countries (excluding non-melanoma skin cancer). Survival rates continue to improve with 89 out of every 100 women diagnosed with invasive breast cancer now surviving five or more years beyond diagnosis. To bring attention to this important cause,…
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Ingenious Poster Uses Lemons to Illustrate Different Signs of Breast Cancer
One in eight American women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime — frightening statistic for any woman to hear. We all know the importance of getting mammograms and self-checking our breasts, but do we know what to look for? Erin Smith Chieze, a woman who was diagnosed with breast cancer in Dec. 2015, didn’t…
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Ryan Gosling Finally Eats His Cereal Tribute to Late Vine Star Ryan McHenry
On Tuesday, Ryan Gosling did something that sent the internet into a frenzy: he ate cereal. For those familiar with the (surprisingly complex) lore of Gosling, this was a truly touching act. To fully understand why this video means so much, you have to go back to 2013, when a man named Ryan McHenry started creating Vines…
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Breast Cancer Survivor’s Scars Beautifully Concealed by Tattoo Artist
Since 2010, David Allen has been tattooing women who have undergone mastectomies. Typically recreating the nipple shape, mastectomy tattoos have been around for some time. David’s work, however, uses design principles to draw attention away from the scarring by tattooing images of flowers and other flora. This process has quickly become a new, viable option to…
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On The Twelve Beards of Christmas
Movember has come and gone… but it’s spirit lives on in DECEMBEARD! Early November, Seattle-based photographer Stephanie Jarstad thought about doing a photography project to support men’s health and prostate cancer awareness. Rather than just photographing bearded men, she wanted to do something quirky and fun. And this is the result! Please enjoy this holly jolly…
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aMOzing Mustaches from Around the World to Celebrate Movember
With Movember just around the corner, it’s time for blokes around the world to start thinking about their health, and their facial hair. For the uninitiated, Movember is an annual event involving the growing of moustaches during the month of November to raise awareness of men’s health issues, such as prostate cancer and other male cancers. In preparation for this…
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Mamming: The Latest Social Media Craze, Involving… BOOBS!
First there was planking. Then tebowing. Then came owling. And hopefully we’ve all forgotten that Miley Cyrus twerking thing. Now the latest craze to hit social media is called “mamming”. And yes, it involves your BOOBS. For the uninitiated, mamming involves taking a photo of your (clothed) breasts sitting on anything. They could be perched on a…