Sometimes we think we should have called ourselves Climbers against Cancers, plural, because there isn’t just one type. In fact, there are more types of cancer than months in the year, which is quite a depressing thought!
There are some variants depending on what country you are in, but if we look at the list of Cancer Ribbon colours and associated months (as cited on emedicinehealth.com), we see how we have to ‘double up’!
So, while most people can remember Pink October (for breast cancer), how many of the following would you have been able to name?
| Cancer Ribbon Colour Chart | ||
| All cancers | Lavender | |
| Appendix cancer | Amber | None |
| Bladder cancer | Marigold/blue/purple | May |
| Brain cancer | Gray | May |
| Breast cancer | Pink | October |
| Cervical cancer | Teal/white | January |
| Childhood cancer | Gold | September |
| Colon cancer | Dark blue | March |
| Esophageal cancer | Periwinkle | April |
| Gallbladder/bile duct cancer | Kelly green | February |
| Head and neck cancer | Burgundy/ivory | April |
| Hodgkin’s lymphoma | Violet | September |
| Kidney cancer | Orange | March |
| Leiomyosarcoma | Purple | July |
| Leukemia | Orange | September |
| Liver cancer | Emerald | October |
| Lung cancer | White | November |
| Lymphoma | Lime green | September |
| Melanoma and skin cancers | Black | May |
| Multiple myeloma | Burgundy | March |
| Ovarian cancer | Teal | September |
| Pancreatic cancer | Purple | November |
| Prostate cancer | Light blue | September |
| Sarcoma/bone cancer | Yellow | July |
| Stomach/gastric cancer | Periwinkle | November |
| Testicular cancer | Orchid | April |
| Thyroid cancer | Teal/pink/blue | September |
| Uterine cancer | Peach | September |
| Neuroendocrine/carcinoid cancer | Zebra stripe | November |
| Honours caregivers | Plum | November |
If we sort that by month, we get this:
| Cervical cancer | Teal/white | January |
| Gallbladder/bile duct cancer | Kelly green | February |
| Colon cancer | Dark blue | March |
| Kidney cancer | Orange | March |
| Multiple myeloma | Burgundy | March |
| Esophageal cancer | Periwinkle | April |
| Head and neck cancer | Burgundy/ivory | April |
| Testicular cancer | Orchid | April |
| Bladder cancer | Marigold/blue/purple | May |
| Brain cancer | Gray | May |
| Melanoma and skin cancers | Black | May |
| Leiomyosarcoma | Purple | July |
| Sarcoma/bone cancer | Yellow | July |
| Childhood cancer | Gold | September |
| Hodgkin’s lymphoma | Violet | September |
| Leukemia | Orange | September |
| Lymphoma | Lime green | September |
| Ovarian cancer | Teal | September |
| Prostate cancer | Light blue | September |
| Thyroid cancer | Teal/pink/blue | September |
| Uterine cancer | Peach | September |
| Breast cancer | Pink | October |
| Liver cancer | Emerald | October |
| Lung cancer | White | November |
| Pancreatic cancer | Purple | November |
| Stomach/gastric cancer | Periwinkle | November |
| Neuroendocrine/carcinoid cancer | Zebra stripe | November |
| Honors caregivers | Plum | November |
| Appendix cancer | Amber | None |
(No, we don’t know either why there’s nothing in December, nor why Appendix cancer doesn’t have its own month!)
In our Awareness Tip Tuesday feature on social media, we’ll be reminding you of these and hopefully providing some useful information, whether statistical or about prevention, to do with the ‘cancer of the moment’. Why not follow us to make sure you don’t miss out?
And as we are about raising funds to fight all of these, we’ll be promoting our merchandise of each month’s colour(s)….for January, cervical cancer month, there’s a choice of white or teal.
We can suggest the list below – head over to the shop now while stocks last!
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Ladies loose fit organic top, available in white: https://www.climbersagainstcancer.org/shop/ladies-loose-t-shirt/ |
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Ladies white vest: https://www.climbersagainstcancer.org/shop/ladies-white-vest-top/ |
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Men’s white vest: https://www.climbersagainstcancer.org/shop/vest-top/ |
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Teal Unisex multilingual T (ocean depth): https://www.climbersagainstcancer.org/shop/multilingual-t-shirt/ |
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CAC Smiley decals: https://www.climbersagainstcancer.org/shop/large-cac-smiley-decals/ |
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Gekco chalk: https://www.climbersagainstcancer.org/shop/gekco-chalk/ |
European supporters! Beware customs duties on the above! You can shop ‘duty free’ at our e-shop but unfortunately we only stock the multilingual T from that list at the moment (and stocks are running low on this special edition), so don’t delay, get yours here today:
https://climbers-against-cancer-europe.sumupstore.com/product/t-unisex-multilingual-organic
We do have lots of other colours of Ts, sweatshirts and beanies in stock though!
