Is breast cancer the only type of cancer now?
Every f***ing time I see anything about cancer on TV it's breast cancer. I guess they cured all the other forms of cancer and only breast cancer is left?
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That's exactly it. You should watch more TV and make some more conclusions.
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It's breast cancer awareness month!
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Apparently, you have not researched the topic thoroughly nor paid attention to the news reports. Common types of CANCER still COMMON and SERIOUS PROBLEMS: Skin cancer Prostate cancer Brain tumors Stomach cancer Ovarian cancer Pancreatic cancer Lung cancer Leukemia Colon cancer
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Nobody finds your wit and sarcasm funny or amusing..
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So true!!!! I've been saying the same thing on it. Breast cancer is a cancer that is focused on WOMEN (less the 0.01% of men get breast cancer) Breast cancer is the 5th biggest cancer....what about the others? Skin, brain, nothing....it is supported by women, because it affects women. If we pushed the same agenda for men, we would be considered sexist. I donate to cancers that affect BOTH genders EQUALLY. However, with all this breast cancer being shoved in our face, I will now only donate a majority to prostate cancer, and another cancers that affect people EQUALLY!
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Well it's Breast Cancer Awareness month right now, so breast cancer has a higher profile than usual. However, it's true that it normally does have a higher profile than other cancers, and there's a simple reason for that - sheer hard work. People who campaign around illnesses are usually concerned with the illness that's affected them or their family. I know a couple who have a child with a very rare and life-threatening condition (not a cancer). Much of their time is now taken up with campaigning around this condition - fundraising and agitating for more funding for research, more education, more awareness etc. Individuals don't have unlimited time, and choose their campaigns. Similarly, breast cancer awareness campaigns and Breast Cancer Awareness Month were started by ordinary women, most of them with breast cancer or who had lost family members to breast cancer, to raise awareness so that people knew the symptoms, examined themselves regularly, attended their routine mammograms etc. Enthusiastic participation and hard work by women made it grow into something nationally, then internationally, recognised, and it caught the public imagination (and then big business cashed in, but that's another story). It's thanks to the hard work of those women that breast cancer is no longer the major killer and the automatic death sentence it used to be - but we shouldn't lose sight of the fact that in the US alone an average of 112 women die from breast cancer every day. That's one every 15 minutes. There are other cancer awareness months, ribbons etc; but no cancer campaign has had the sheer hard work put into it that breast cancer awareness has. Any group of people can start an awareness campaign for any illness - you could do it if you feel so strongly - but if they want it to be as successful as the breast cancer campaigning, they'll have to be prepared to be as dedicated and work as hard.
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lol. or go to grocery store. its on detergent, cereal Boxes, & just about everything else. i wish childhood cancer would get more awareness. 12,400 kids are diagnosed a year. cancer is leading death in kids after accidents. but nobody talks about that. plus you never hear anything about lung, pancreatic, melanoma, etc. did it bother you that the white house had pink lights all over it in support of breast cancer awareness yet they don't make the white house any other color for any other fundraiser.
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Breast cancer rates dropped by half in tandem with the discontinuation of hormone replacement therapy, according to a study published online in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. The study was reported in the Telegraph in the United Kingdom. Dr De wrote: 'The results support the hypothesised link between the use of hormone replacement therapy and invasive breast cancer incidence and indicate that the sharp decline in breast cancer incidence in 2002 is likely explained by the concurrent decline in the use of hormone replacement therapy among Canadian women
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