Why Some Women With Breast Cancer Feel Like The 'Damper On The Party' During October

Why Some Women With Breast Cancer Feel Like The 'Damper On The Party' During October
Women release balloons at the start of a race and walk against breast cancer in Guatemala City, on March 9, 2014. About 7000 people participated in the event and the funds collected are used to support the National League Against Cancer, in the care and prevention of breast cancer. AFP PHOTO Johan ORDONEZ (Photo credit should read JOHAN ORDONEZ/AFP/Getty Images)
Women release balloons at the start of a race and walk against breast cancer in Guatemala City, on March 9, 2014. About 7000 people participated in the event and the funds collected are used to support the National League Against Cancer, in the care and prevention of breast cancer. AFP PHOTO Johan ORDONEZ (Photo credit should read JOHAN ORDONEZ/AFP/Getty Images)

The pink ribbons, pink T-shirts, pink carnations, a pink bra sculpture — there's pink seemingly everywhere, promoting mammograms, raising funds and celebrating survivors in October's Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

But there are some people who are not uplifted by the annual campaign.

Including some who are breast cancer patients.

Not the ones with triumphant stories of finishing treatment with apparent cures. The ones with metastatic breast cancer — cancer that has spread, and is incurable.

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