We cannot be silent is one slogan printed on specialty clothing offered by a company called Privacy. Other slogans include United We Cure and Mission. Purpose. Cure.

The slogans say a lot -- but the accomplishments of Carolyn Jones, Founder and President/CEO of Privacy, say a whole lot more.

Think about this:

Jones lost her mother to breast cancer on November 16, 2000 during a time when too many questions about the disease were left unanswered and not enough options were available for women fighting for their lives.

Times have changed, in part due to outspoken pioneers like Jones, who are spreading the word and funding the cause.

Part of the Privacy corporate goal is to support medical research and to educate women about early detection and treatment.

"It is very clear that more information and research is needed due to the yearly increase in new cases nationally," says Jones who cites statistics such as this: every 12 minutes a woman in America will die from complications associated with breast cancer. And this: more than 1,500 new cases of male breast cancer will be diagnosed this year.

Privacy, a California-based company with a social conscious, offers for both women and men an assortment of t-shirts, sweatshirts, jeans, hats, recommended books, accessories, breast cancer facts, and even a contest or two. A portion of all profits are donated to breast cancer initiatives with an emphasis on low-income and uninsured populations.

Check it all out right here.

Grey's Anatomy has teamed up with Warriors in Pink in a sweepstakes called Gear Up with Grey's Anatomy. The Warriors in Pink Prize Package winner will receive a 2007 Ford Fusion, a trip to the Grey's Anatomy set, and a Warrior in Pink apparel package including gear autographed by the cast of Grey's Anatomy. No purchase is necessary to win and the deadline to enter the sweepstakes is 11:59 PM (EST) on December 31, 2006. For more details, and to enter the sweepstakes, visit Warriors in Pink Gear Up with Grey's Anatomy Sweepstakes.

In addition, Warriors in Pink has launched a magnificent virtual quilt online. Breast cancer survivors and co-survivors are invited to contribute to the quilt with a personal message of encouragement, inspiration, love, support and celebration by designing a symbolic patch that will then be added to the Virtual Quilt online. According to the keepers of the Warriors in Pink Virtual Quilt, "There is strength in numbers, and decorated with the Warriors in Pink symbols, each patch is a personal message for friends and loved ones. Experience the vastness and behold the Warriors in Pink beautiful and valiant fight against breast cancer."

The Virtual Quilt is also available as a screensaver. To date, there are 2740 patches. To visit, the Virtual Quilt requires Flash Player 8 or higher.

In a trendy dash for style, we welcome the newest blog to the network -- StyleDash. Whether your interests lean towards fashion, food or home decorating, StyleDash bloggers are talking about it.

StyleDash features retro to cutting edge trends in accessories, coiffure, cosmetics, eyewear, home style, jewelry, soaps & salves, foods and much more. It's a place. An event. A state of mind. An attitude.

And as every perfect host knows, when you invite a guest, you have graciously prepared something special to greet them on their arrival.

StyleDash is the perfect host. Enter a contest to win a designer handbag or book tote -- just for showing up! What are you waiting for? Have some fun, discover cool, or just read trend buzz -- it's all good. We will be right here when you get back. Promise.

I will be honest. After a double mastectomy left my chest mutilated and scarred, I worried if I would be physically attractive to a man after breast cancer surgery. It's not that I think men are shallow, it had more to do with all that cancer was taking away in my life, and I was not sure how much I would pay in the final cost of losses.

Worse yet, I wondered if simply being someone who had been diagnosed with cancer would make people run the other way. If the private conversations I have had with other women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer are a true indication, these are secret fears most of us share.

We each find our own inspiration back to feeling accepted and attractive in reclaiming the every day challenges and joys of relationships and life. For me, one of the ways I found that gave me hope was watching other breast cancer survivors enter new relationships or get married. As in -- obviously it doesn't seem to matter when it comes to love how imperfect you might be physically -- cancer surgery scars and all -- or that you were someone who had cancer.

I even find inspiration in Kylie Minogue being voted the number one desired traveling companion of men in a poll conducted by British Airways. She beat out Rachel Stevens and actress Angelina Jolie for the top spot. Not bad.

Yes, I know, few of us have the attractive quality of fame, fortune and international celebrity status to carry us along, but that does not matter. The fact that Minogue was voted by men as the number one person they would most like to be seated next to on a flight just reaffirms one more time the hope factor for me.

Seriously, I am okay now, it's been a few years but I remember when this private fear hurt my heart and I wondered if cancer had stolen more from me than was obvious at the time of diagnosis. If you are newly-diagnosed and reading this, and worry and wonder privately what life will be like down the road, it only gets better and the fears and worry about sex appeal will be have been for naught. Few will run the other way.

With the sale of a designer logo t-shirt, Fashion Targets Breast Cancer, launched in the UK by Breakthrough Breast Cancer, is celebrating its tenth year as the UK's leading fashion charity breast cancer campaign. The fundraiser began after Ralph Lauren's friend, fashion editor of the Washington Post, Nina Hyde, died from breast cancer. While Ms. Hyde was still battling cancer, she asked Lauren to promise he would do something to raise awareness for breast cancer. Fashion Targets Breast Cancer and the designer logo t-shirt is his promise fulfilled.

Fashion Targets Breast Cancer is a worldwide campaign with celebrity spokespersons such as Saffron Aldridge, Yasmin Le Bon, Gisele Bundchen, Helena Christensen, Jodie Kidd, Elle Macpherson, Jade Jagger, Lily Cole, Eva Herzigova, Claudia Schiffer, Jasmine Guiness, Yasmin Le Bon, Laura Bailey, Erin O'Connor and Jerry Hall.

To support breast cancer charity, you can purchase a Fashion Targets Breast Cancer designer t-shirt here. In addition, by submitting a photo of you and your best dressed friends to the 10 best dressed gallery you are entered in a contest to win tickets to the London Fashion Week this coming September.

The National Breast Cancer Coalition, NBCC, is exposing the biggest boobs in the fight to stop breast cancer. If you misrepresent the truth about breast cancer to push a private agenda with frivolous actions or initiatives that go against the progress being made in the fight against breast cancer; or seek to make a financial profit without benefit to the legitimate efforts being made in the fight against breast cancer -- then you qualify for the Golden Boob Award. The NBCC is a grassroots advocacy group that works for increased federal funding for breast cancer research and with the scientific community to implement new models of research. The NBCC seeks to improve access to high-quality health care and breast cancer clinical trials for all women. This year's nominees in the first annual Golden Boob Award are:

• Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer for threatening the integrity of serious efforts to find ways to prevent, treat, cure, and ultimately end breast cancer.
• Mark For Life for trying to make money from a product with no impact in the fight against breast cancer.
  

If you know boobs that deserve the award, you can nominate them at the Golden Boob Award site. You can vote for this year's biggest boob of all by going here.

Update 12.17.2006: The winner of the Golden Boob Awards as the biggest boob is ....

Shannon Harken wrote an essay to nominate her mother, Sue Myers of Pleasantville, Iowa, as the most amazing mother in the world because of her mother's zest for life and the positive example she set while battling breast cancer. Of the more than 14,000 Mom's the Word essay submissions, Kohl's unveiled the ten most amazing role model mom finalists of the contest and Harken's essay about her mother placed Myers in the top ten moms of the year. Ultimately, America will vote to decide who will be this year's number one amazing mom. All ten essays are featured at Kohl's, where you can vote for the essay and mother you feel best deserves to win.

The role model with the most votes will earn a $5,000 shopping spree, a style transformation, and will be escorted by Daisy Fuentes on a trip to Fashion Week in Los Angeles. In addition, Kohl's and Fuentes will honor the grand prize winner during a ceremony in her hometown on May 13. All mothers are amazing, but I went and voted for Myers. Knowing what she has been through by way of the fact I am a breast cancer survivor and I know what I went through -- I would like to see her win and enjoy a day of special recognition, pampering and fun. Voting ends May 8. Shannon's essay about her mother Sue is cute. It's number #2. Go here to vote.

When you are a mother diagnosed with breast cancer, you worry about your children. How are they coping? Your children spend an equal amount of time worrying about your surviving cancer. Sometimes, the best you can do is allow them to help in any way they can, to give them a sense of control of a terrifying situation. My teenage son made a bowl of Jello each and every day while I was going through chemotherapy and was too nauseous to keep solid food down. My younger son hovered over me, resting his hand on my forehead, as a way to connect, as a way to care.

When Laura Cawley's mom was diagnosed with breast cancer, through surgery and months of chemotherapy, the 15 year-old teen helped her mother around the house and never missed a day of school. Now, Suzanne Cawley, 42, a teaching assistant at Spalding Parish Church of England Day School, wants to thank her exceptional daughter by attempting to win a contest for a chance to ride in the £10,000 coach that carried celebrity Jordan to her wedding with Peter Andre. If the Spalding High School student Laura wins, she and two friends will ride in the white and gold pumpkin coach to their prom on May 12 - and to make it even more special it will be Laura's 16th birthday.

If you live in the UK, please consider helping Suzanne win this for her daughter. To vote for Laura call 09012 290194 or text LAURA to 86611. Calls cost 25p per call. Texts cost 25p per text plus network charges. Lines close on March 30.

UK's MTV is offering its fans a chance to win free tickets to this year's Teenage Cancer Trust gigs at London’s Royal Albert Hall. From March 27 to April 1, Razorlight, Bloc Party, The Cure and Goldfrapp will perform. Stand-up comedian Ricky Gervais, will be there, along with a tribute to VH1's Tommy Vance and a night of metal mayhem starring the legendary Judas Priest.

According to the Teenage Cancer Trust , in the last 30 years, the incidence of cancer for teens and young adults has increased 50 percent, and the number of teens with cancer now exceeds the number of children with cancer. The Teenage Cancer Trust provides services, education and support for teens diagnosed with cancer. Not adults, and not children, they often receive treatment and services they feel are not age-appropriate or relevant to the special needs of teens.

To enter MTV's contest for a chance to win free tickets to the Teenage Cancer Trust gigs at London’s Royal Albert Hall fundraiser, go here.