Thinking Pink Once Again
You’ve been hiding under a rock I think, if you don’t know that October is Breast Cancer awareness month. This subject is near to my heart (at any time of year) as that’s where it all began for my grandma (the one I’m currently visiting).
Ten years ago she found the dreaded lump in her breast and was diagnosed with breast cancer. After a year of treatment the prognosis was good, her breast cancer was announced to be in remission. For 8 years it stayed that way until 2006, when she went in for a regular check up and discovered that the breast cancer was back. She now had metastatic breast cancer meaning it had spread. It was now not only in her breast but had spread to her lymph nodes and her bones. The outlook is not good once it starts spreading to more vital organs. If old age or accident do not take her first, this cancer will be the cause of her death. All the more reason for me to feel strongly about finding a cure for it.
The National Breast Cancer Foundation estimates that nearly 200,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer each year and that 40,000 of those women will die. And women aren’t the only ones at risk. Each year 1,700 men will be diagnosed with it and 450 will die.
You can visit the site to learn more about early detection, healthy habits that may help prevent it and ways you can help fund research. One very easy way that you can help fund research toward finding a cure this month is located in my upper right sidebar, the pink button that says, Fund Free Mammograms. Each click is paid for by site sponsors, and mammogram funding is provided to clinics throughout the U.S. through the National Breast Cancer Foundation. So please click away!
Have you or someone you know been affected by Breast Cancer?
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I do not know someone who has been affected by breast cancer, but have had several loved ones suffer with other forms of cancer. Breast Cancer seems to be one that we are getting closer and closer to figuring out! Thanks for all this wonderful information Summer. Keep enjoying your grandma. Hugs to all of you!
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My grandma died from her breast cancer just 4 years ago.
Best wishes to your grandma, and all in your family. I know what a painful thing it can be to watch and experience.
And bless you for spreading the word for awareness.
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I needed this post! Thanks for always keeping me on top of things. I admire how you are so proactive–about everything.
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My Dad had the male version of breast cancer when he was a child. Weird, I know, but men can get it, too. He still won’t go shirtless, even when swimming, because he’s self conscious about the scars and missing anatomical features that resulted from the surgery that removed the cancerous tissue, thus saving his life.
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My mum lost her oldest friend to it about ten years ago. I know the odds are that it’ll touch the life of someone else in my life and the thought scares me.
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