How have social inequalities been reflected in the campaign to fight breast cancer?
In terms of its agenda, the campaign to fight breast cancer is characterized by a historically entrenched concern with funding research rather than access to treatment. This prejudice has arisen because the cancer control establishment (the American Cancer Society, the NCI, the CDC, the FDA, pharmaceutical companies) has from its inception been composed of affluent individuals for whom the costs or availability of medical care are irrelevant. It’s also the case that the consumption-based nature of the campaign excludes women without the financial resources from participating in it and perpetuates through advertising the idea that breast cancer is a disease which predominantly effects young, slim, ultrafeminine, white women. 4. Where is the place of prevention education and research within the current breast cancer movement? There is a clear divide within the movement between organizations that are fighting for preventative research and those that follow the historically entrenched bias
