Illuminating the breast cancer journey: Using metaphor to drive empathy, clarity and differentiation

This paper explains how Susan G Komen, a breast cancer charity in the US, uncovered the unconscious metaphors that frame the breast cancer journey to re-focus its work on the needs of cancer survivors.

Illuminating the breast cancer journey: Using metaphor to drive empathy, clarity and differentiation

Padmini Sharma and Abigail RendinJester and Susan G.Komen, and Olson Zaltman Associates

Introduction

In 1980, Nancy G. Brinker promised her dying sister Susan that she would do everything in her power to end breast cancer forever. In 1982, that promise became the Susan G Komen organization and the beginning of the global breast cancer movement. More than three decades later, Komen is still the largest non-profit funding source for the fight against breast cancer. However, it has gone from being the onlybreast cancer non-profit...

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