F Cancer Embrace Life Press

Are you looking for a new and unique way to raise funds and create awareness for your fundraising program? The F Cancer™ Embrace Life Ambassador Program may be just the answer you need. The objective of the Ambassador Program is to assist organizations and individuals in their cancer fundraising efforts. With every F Cancer™ Embrace Life bracelet sold for your cancer care cause, $50.00 is donated to that cause. You can purchase bracelets and sell them as part of an event or F Cancer™ can set up an account dedicated to your event and sell the bracelets for you.

Just weeks after a Barrie man was approved for a personalized licence plate reading "F CANCER", the Ministry of Transportation has reversed the decision and rejected the application.
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Look for October in the 2011 Pinups for Pink Calendar and you’ll find F Cancer Embrace Life founder Susan Fiedler channelling her inner Betty Boop. The calendar, featuring 12 lovely Vancouver women posing as classic pin up beauties raises funds for the Canadian National Breast Cancer Foundation through sales and events featuring the calendar.

Yes indeed, the F*** Cancer name Yael Cohen gave her charity in 2009 did surface a year earlier when city jeweller (and blood-cancer survivor) Susan Fiedler engraved it on bracelets that raised $35,000 for the InspireHealth cancer-care clinic.

A special Thank You goes to tattoo artist Jime Litwalk, Hart and 
Huntington Las Vegas and The Hard Rock Hotel for creating their own charity event: Rock the Ribbon. Held on October 29th, Rock the Ribbon offered the public an opportunity to have the F Cancer design tattooed free of charge. The event was inspired by our F Cancer friend and cancer survivor Tony di Giovanni who had the F Cancer artwork turned into beautiful body art on his 40th birthday (add link to video). Donations were accepted and proceeds passed onto Susan G. Komer for the Cure and F Cancer Embrace Life.

The cheap plastic yellow LiveStrong bracelets by the Lance Armstrong Foundation have raised millions for the cause, but really, who is going to wear that on a daily basis, if at all? Of course the dollar cost is no biggie and a worthwhile, inexpensive purchase, but isn’t it better to have a piece of jewelry that you can proudly wear? Vancouver jewelry designer and cancer survivor Susan Fiedler of Soul Flower has been turning heads with her elegant sterling silver bracelet engraved with the words we all feel — “Fuck Cancer.”

Inscribed on an elegantly simple silver bangle, and resembling an EEG lifeline, is the defiantly positive message: F*ck Cancer. The work of Vancouver-based Susan Fiedler, who knows firsthand what it takes to face this disease, this charmed bracelet was an expression of her own experience, but she found many cancer survivors using the same motto, and was delighted to find it expressive of a shared attitude.

So, in the meantime, I’ll try to enjoy each day as much as I can - and take the advice that’s inscribe on a gift from my brother Moses, the founder of this magazine. It’s a handsome silver bracelet, and he wears one exactly like it in solidarity. The engraving looks like the squiggles on a medical monitor. But if you look closely, you can read the legend: F**k Cancer!

Sure, pink ribbons and yellow wristbands send a positive message, but here’s a bracelet that doesn’t mince words. Embracing the strong and courageous spirit of many cancer patients and survivors, these bracelets by Vancouver jewellery company Soul Flower are delicate in design but strong in their message. Engraved within an ECG-like lifeline are the fighting words “F–k Cancer”—a sassy, life-affirming message juxtaposed with the tasteful design of the simple silver bangle.

Soul Flower has long been a favorite jewelry line of mine because, Susan Fiedler (the socially conscious designer behind the line) is committed to creating gorgeous jewels at affordable prices. From belly rings to finger baubles my jewelry box is full of Soul Flower.

In the vein of designing with soul, check out her F*Cancer bracelet. No more of those horrible rubber wristbands - this sterling silver bracelet really makes a strong statement about kicking ass on cancer.