{"id":350,"date":"2007-11-01T21:39:13","date_gmt":"2007-11-02T02:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/01\/exploitation-all-year-long\/"},"modified":"2007-11-01T21:39:13","modified_gmt":"2007-11-02T02:39:13","slug":"exploitation-all-year-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/01\/exploitation-all-year-long\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploitation all year long"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today at a press event in Charleston, plastic surgeons masquerading as humanitarians announced the launch of a calendar featuring topless women in what they call a “bold visual approach to education about post-mastectomy options.” <\/p>\n

Here’s their press release:
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\nWomen with Heriditary Predisposition for Breast Cancer Pose Topless in Unique Educational Calendar Launch<\/strong><\/p>\n

WHAT: Launch of a unique calendar<\/a> of women who are members of FORCE (Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered), the nation’s largest community of women who carry a BRCA mutation or other high-risk factors for breast cancer. In the calendar, titled “Life is a Carnival,” 14 women whose faces are festively masked, pose topless in a bold visual approach to education about post-mastectomy options. <\/p>\n

Meet some of these brave women, most of whom have the BRCA gene mutation, and learn about the options they chose; meet the founder of FORCE, which has 11,000 members and whose website gets 1.5 million hits\/month; meet prominent reconstructive surgeons and a geneticist; and, obtain a free copy of calendar.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This event provides an opportunity for editors, reporters, producers, on-air hosts and writers to, in an informal setting, meet the women, the founder and director of FORCE<\/a>, and surgeons who perform microsurgical breast reconstruction<\/a>. Refreshments, hors d’oeuvres. The event is open to the public, RSVP to 843-513-1010.<\/p>\n

WHEN:\u00a0Thursday, November 1, 5:30 – 7:30 PM<\/p>\n

WHERE: The Historic Rice Mill Building, 17 Lockwood Drive -Charleston, S.C<\/p>\n

WHO: Sue Friedman, DVM, Executive Director \/ Founder of FORCE \/ Calendar model (Born and raised in NY, lives in FL)<\/p>\n

FORCE members and Women With BRCA gene (from South Carolina and, elsewhere), some of whom had mastectomy and reconstructive surgery.<\/p>\n

James E.Craigie, M and; Richard M. Kline Jr, MD of The Center for Natural Breast Reconstruction; \u00a0members of a breast reconstruction team in SC who use microsurgery to transfer live, soft tissue from the abdomen to shape a live breast mound; a procedure growing in popularity as an alternative to breast implants. <\/p>\n

Steven Shapiro, M.S., D.M.D., M.D., medical geneticist who provides genetic counseling and testing for BRCA mutations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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