There are so many diseases and cancer types, I dont get why the big awareness campaigns for the breast cancer... it sounds like a celebration more than awareness ... I just wonder why this particular type...if there is any particular reason!
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There is a reason why breast cancer has a higher profile than other types of cancer.. It's not because it's more important, it's because of hard work and campaigning by women with breast cancer. That's it. There are other cancer awareness campaigns, with awareness months and ribbons etc - but the fact is none hs had the sheer hard work and dedication put into it that breast cancer awareness has. Breast cancer awareness campaigns and Breast Cancer Awareness Month started as a campaign by ordinary women, most of whom had breast cancer or had lost someone to breast cancer, to raise awareness so that people knew the symptoms, examined themselves regularly, attended their routine mammograms etc. It caught the public imagination, and enthusiastic participation and hard work by women made it grow into something nationally, then internationally, recognised (and then big business cashed in). People have limited time, and choose their campaigns; those 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 - fund raising and agitating for more funding for research, more education, more awareness etc. And an old friend of mine has stage 4 prostate cancer; for some time he has dedicated his spare time to raising awareness of prostate cancer and funds for prostate cancer research. What they're doing is what what the women who started the breast cancer awareness campaign did. And it's as a result of the hard work by those women that breast cancer is no longer the automatic death sentence it once was - but don't lose sight of the fact that in the US an average of 112 women die from breast cancer every day (that's one every 15 minutes), and in the UK.that average is 33 a day - I don't have statistics for other countries. I agree that all the pink fluffy nonsense and 'fun' makes the whole thing seem more like a celebration sometimes. I'm in remission from breast cancer, and I hate Breast Cancer Awareness month. You know, all the pink razzmatazz has negative consequences for breast cancer patients too – the marketing and fund-raising hype surrounding breast cancer, by trivialising a deadly disease, is leading people to believe, wrongly, that breast cancer is 1) not very serious, certainly not as serious as many other cancers (many women with breast cancer have been told – by people who don’t have it – that it’s a ‘good’ cancer to get) and 2) easily curable. In all the pink trivia, it’s easy for people to lose sight of the fact that breast cancer is a devastating illness with disfiguring surgery, gruelling treatments and so far no cure. I agree that awareness needs to be raised about other cancers too.and while I hate ‘competitive illness’ I can see why there is resentment about an imbalance in awareness raising and fund raising. But when people complain about the attention breast cancer receives in comparison to other cancers, they need to be reminded that there is nothing to stop any group of people starting a campaign along the lines of the one started by those women who started all the breast cancer awareness - the solution is not less attention for breast cancer, but more attention for other cancers. Someone starting such a campaign would have to be prepared to be as dedicated and work as hard as those women though, if they wanted their campaign to be as effective.
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breast cancer is huge. kills a lot of women. taken so much from me...
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I agree It is NOT more important.... -Men are affected by cancer much more then women For those of you saying breast cancer is the deadliest...that is BS...it is the 5th leading cancer in WOMEN over the age of 50! -only 1% of men get breast cancer...so yes it is very gender biased! -susan komen does NOT care about men or children. Illustrating they are a sexist organization -men die from prostate cancer at almost the same rate that women do of breast cancer (yet women will not support the fight against prostate cancer) -If i said, "save the TATA's" before the pink campaign came to light...I would have been slapped. -I will NOT dontate to such a selfish cause and neither should you. -find a CURE for cancer...not just a cancer that affects WOMEN OVER THE AGE OF 50 I too find the susan komen foundation very selfish. I also notice women don't want to support prostate cancer. I say the NFL should only support PROSTATE cancer from now on and see what kind of 'heat' men would catch thumbs down comes from people who can't handle the truth...find a cure for CANCER...not a gender biased, age biased disease that isn't even fatel
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