Breast Cancer Events
Why so much support for breast cancer research?
Over the past 8 to 10 years fundraising and charity events research for breast cancer has increased. In the last few years I see the pink ribbon on cars, products, even foods in the supermarket to mention a portion of the proceeds will be donated to breast cancer research. Where I live, they had a "Run For The Cure" today all in support of breast cancer. I do not want to sound cold, but I guess my question is … What about all the rest of the cancer? Prostate cancer? Tumors ?….. I never, ever see a portion of sales of products will support research for something else. Now I realize breast cancer is a big one …. but not alone. Statistically, every man alive will get prostate cancer at some point? Is not big enough to have any news? I will not have cancer breast …. My grandfather died of a brain tumor …. Maybe I'm missing something?
I can understand why this issue is frustrating for people with other types cancer and their families, and support for current breast cancer is particularly high profile at this time because we are in October – Breast Cancer Awareness Month. I agree that knowledge has to be raised about other types of cancer, while too.and hate "disease competitive" I can see why there is resentment by an imbalance in awareness and fundraising. However, the profile of the breast cancer rate is so high – and the answer to your question – is simple, work hard. Breast cancer awareness campaigns and BC Awareness Month began as a campaign by ordinary women, many with cancer, to increase awareness so that people knew the symptoms, examination regularly, attended their routine mammograms, so enthusiastic participation and hard work by the women do grow into something nationally and then internationally recognized (and cashed in big companies). Any group of people can start a campaign awareness for any disease. There are months other cancer awareness, ribbons, etc., but no cancer campaign has had the hard work put into it breast cancer awareness has. Now I've had breast cancer and I agree that there is very irritating things about the Breast Cancer campaign, especially Pink by October as the most cynical of us called. Support for those with a deadly disease that kills on average 33 women a day in the United Kingdom and 112 per day in the U.S. (the All I have statistics, I am not being ethnocentric) has become a market opportunity for large companies, with approximately 1% of the cost of all that pink 're noticing is specially made to charities for breast cancer in the remaining pockets of retailers. The pink fluffy material infuriates me, and I'm not at all "tickled pink" by the trivialization (Walmart) Asda still a disease that can kill me. Magazines carry stories of survivors of October cheerful say that is a free (no free way with breast cancer), and often say BC has changed their lives for the better – very different from someone who we know has had cancer breast. And it has negative consequences for patients with breast cancer too – I think this is counterproductive, that the marketing and fundraising hype surrounding breast cancer, by the trivialization of a fatal disease, is leading people to believe that breast cancer is a) not very serious, certainly not as serious like many other cancers (many women with breast cancer has told – by people who do not have – which is a 'good cancer' to get) and b) curable. (my neighbor told me, 'you have almost got licked breast cancer, right? "Really?" Why are women's breasts cut off then?) I've even heard that is a 'hot' cancer, 'cancer sexy' – my prosthesis and sexy sexy marking a body of evidence that breast are Not so. Yes, Pink October is terrible in some respects self and others need awareness campaigns (many have as I said, but did not receive much support – or, basically have so much work put into them). But do not lose sight of the fact that breast cancer is a fatal disease, the disfigurement of surgery, treatment and exhausting so far has no cure. The fact that aspects of consciousness BC trivialize not mean it is trivial. If brain or prostate cancer are causes near you heart (and good for you if you are), there is nothing to stop you and some others to start a campaign the same way the few women who began the whole cancer breast cancer awareness campaign did. You'll have to be as dedicated as they were and work as hard as they did when I'm in remission from breast cancer, bears no pink ribbon and support the work of Think Before You Pink and Pink stinks!, startd campaigns by women with breast cancer http://thinkbeforeyoupink.org/?page_id=13
