Breast cancer campaign turns planet pink: Too much?

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Has breast cancer awareness gone too far? That's what some are asking, now that the campaign's signature pink seems to be showing up just about everywhere and on just about everything - from the Great Sphinx in Egypt to pink handgun grips.

"The pink drives me nuts," Cynthia Ryan, an 18-year breast cancer survivor who volunteers to help women with the disease, told the Associated Press. Of course, not everyone shares that sentiment. "Research doesn't come cheap," said a spokesman for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure - which says breast cancer awareness efforts have helped the foundation raise hundreds of millions of dollars for breast cancer research.

What do you think? These 26 images may help you make up your mind...

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