5 Quotes by Barbara Brenner

One third of all women who are diagnosed with breast cancer have found the tumor themselves.

When companies put pink ribbons on their products, they're no longer just selling a sweater or a watch -- they're selling the expectation that buying their product is going to make a difference in the fight against breast cancer. But the 'portion of the proceeds' that goes to breast cancer is all too often minuscule in comparison.

This set of recommendations, which looks at all the research that's available, says what we've been saying for a long time: The marketing of genetic testing is far too broad.

I have no doubt that there are things in the environment to blame. I don't know what they are, and nobody else does either.

The medical community has us believing that if you get a yearly mammogram, and that mammogram does not show cancer, you're cancer-free. I'm proof that that's not the case.