"Each shoe has its own personality, its own shade, its own fabric and those are personality traits that are very similar to my patients. I started out getting just enough for 31, and now I'm up to well over 72 pairs of just pink shoes. So I can wear more than one in a day. You have 71 pairs of pink shoes. I do. I have a lot of other reasonably colored shoes too."
"Breast cancer is not a death sentence. It is two words that represent many different types of cancers as individual as our personalities. We have gotten very, very good at treating breast cancer. We still have a lot of work to do. But the vast majority of our treatments are tolerable. They are successful."
Dr. Lori Alfonse, a surgical oncologist at Lehigh Valley Topper Cancer Institute in Allentown, Pennsylvania, wears a different pair of pink shoes each day in October to honor breast cancer patients and raise awareness. The shoe choices reflect varied personalities and shades that she likens to the individuality of her patients. She has amassed more than 72 pairs of pink shoes and sometimes wears more than one pair per day. She emphasizes that breast cancer is not a death sentence, notes that treatments have become more tolerable and successful, and routinely reminds patients about the importance of mammograms. Patients look forward to the daily pink shoe connection, and Alfonse cites a family history including her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother having had the disease.
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