SAINT EVELYN, THE PATRON SAINT OF BREAST CANCER: Interviewed by Marisa Acocella Marchetto

MAM: Speaking of pink, what do you have to say to the Pink Bashers?

EL: Pink is girl, blue is boy. It's a symbol of the alarm to remind a person to do what they need to do. If you're a woman over 40 or 35 or older with a family history of breast cancer, make sure to get your yearly mammogram. Or if you're younger, do self-exams or if you feel a lump you must get checked by a breast specialist.

Many doctors don't believe that young women can get breast cancer. I asked Dr. Larry Norton. Scientific Director of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation and Director of Breast Cancer Programs at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center what is the youngest case he's ever seen, and you won't believe what he told me.

MAM: What did he tell you?

EL: 11. He saw a girl who had breast cancer at 11 years old.

MAM: I believe it. I met a girl who had it at 18. What's the reason?

EL: Larry thinks that it's possibly the estrogens in milk and the estrogens in chicken breast - they give chickens hormones to plump up their breasts and the trace element goes into the meat and when ingested, into the human system.

He is outraged that the United States government is the only government that allows pregnant cows to be milked.

Too much estrogen increases - it can increase the risk of breast cancer.

MAM: My mother (aka "Smother") always said that. She told my oncologists that chicken and milk were the reasons for so much breast cancer and they thought she was off her rocker.

Evelyn, what are you most proud of?

EL: To save lives gives me satisfaction beyond belief.

(Below is the Estee Lauder Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign I created, pro bono. Evelyn's started the BCRF with a dream: World Pink.)