Breast Cancer Awareness Month
This month is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Like many people, my life has been touched and changed by cancer. Not necessarily breast cancer but other forms that are just as life threatening.
It’s heart wrenching to know that so many women are completely debilitated by this horrific disease every day. It is imperative that women get tested on a regular basis so that this sickness can be caught and treated early.
I’ve had mammograms and they are by no means pleasant but I know that it is essential to female health. The more that we get this information out there the more women may take notice.
Living in the USA, I have been without health insurance at one time. It was a very scary and unpleasant experience. Luckily I am in good health and nothing emergent occurred. However I understand the need to give all women access to testing because this goes a long way to early detection and prevention in some cases.
You can donate to the American Cancer Society here
You can donate to the Cancer Research UK here
Thanks everyone and stay healthy.
A serious illness and this month I am definitely going to partake in a Cancer walk our local church is sponsoring. Thanks for bringing this to everyone’s attention.
Hi Mike! Our local church is also sponsoring a walk next weekend. I don’t know if we will partake but I am definitely going to contribute in some way to this charity. Thanks for the comment
Crazy how so many people are affected by cancer alone as well as the number of woman who become diagnose with breast cancer.
We lost a family member to breast cancer. Sally was a wonderful woman. For something like that to happen to such a nice person, just didn’t make sense.
It is great to see the attention and awareness that breast cancer gets. Early screening is the key.
It does hurt and especially when the survival rate is quite high if this disease is caught early ad treated properly. Hopefully this will become a thing of the past with all the research that scientists are diong.