Cancer Awareness

I'm for cancer awareness, but why breast cancer advertising as cancer awareness month? Many people suffer from all types of cancer every day and I had a family suffering from leukemia and cancer of the pancreas. It seems that if a celebrity is diagnosed with cancer or died of cancer that is the only way of raising will be disseminated. Now that Patrick Swayze has past I am sure that pancreatic cancer is well known in this coming November (pancreatic cancer awareness month) anyone agree?

No, I am not in agreement.

awareness of breast cancer and breast cancer awareness month are not high because of the death of celebrities, but for a much simpler reason - sheer hard work.

Breast awareness campaigns Cancer and British Columbia Awareness Month began as a campaign by ordinary women, many of them with cancer, to raise awareness so people know the symptoms, be review regularly attended their routine mammogram so enthusiastic participation and hard work of women transforming it into something nationally and internationally recognized (and big business cashed).

I agree that awareness needs to be raised about other cancer study as I hate "disease of competition I can understand why there is resentment of an imbalance in awareness and fundraising . I too had family members suffering from other cancers - lung, testis, stomach and cervical cancers and leukemia, all but one of them dying from their cancer.

There are, as you point out, other cancer awareness month, weeks, ribbons etc. but the fact is not had the hard work put in that the breast cancer awareness a.

Now, I had breast cancer and I personally do not like BC Awareness Month - Pink October or the most cynical of us call.

Support for people with a deadly disease that kills an average of 33 women per day in the United Kingdom and 112 per day in the U.S. (the statistics I have, I'm not ethnocentric) was transformed into a marketing opportunity by large companies, with approximately 1% of the cost of special pink stuff goes to charities for breast cancer, the rest in the pockets of retailers.

The pink fluffy stuff makes me angry, and I am not at all "tickled pink" by Asda (Wal-Mart) trivialization of a disease that can still kill me. October magazines carry stories of survivors who claim gays have the green light (there is not at all clear, with breast cancer), and often said British Columbia has changed their lives for the better - very different from I know someone who had breast cancer.

And it has negative consequences for patients with breast cancer, too - I think this is cons-productive, that marketing and hype surrounding fundraising for breast cancer, by playing a deadly disease, is people's minds to believe, wrongly, that breast cancer is 1) not very serious, and certainly not as bad as many other cancers (many women with breast cancer has been said - by people who do not - it's a "good" cancer to get) and 2) easily curable.

I even heard that it is a fashion "or" sexy "of cancer - my prosthesis and sexy sexy marked, one-breasted body are evidence that this is not such a thing.

In all info Rose, it is easy for people to lose sight of the fact that breast cancer is a devastating illness with disfiguring surgery, treatment and grueling currently no cure.

I do not wear a pink ribbon and someone in remission from breast cancer I support the Think Before You Pink and pink stinks! campaigns, both created by women with breast cancer

http://thinkbeforeyoupink.org/?page_id=1 ... .