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If you or someone you know has , you're probably familiar with the colored ribbons associated with the many forms of the disease. These ribbons help fundraising campaigns and heighten awareness. They've become so common that more than 30 cancers have staked claim to a specific color -- or multiple ones. Some colors represent more than one form of the disease.
The History of the Cancer Ribbon
The use of ribbons as a symbol of support and solidarity has been a thing for some time. The idea may have sprung from a folk story from the 1950s about a reformed prisoner returning home on a train. He instructs his family members to put a white ribbon in a tree if they want him to get off the train. Otherwise, he'll keep on going to a new life.
In the early 1970s, the song "Tie a...