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WPMixer
January 2nd, 2010 at 5:30 pm


It just doesn’t work that way. Cancer isn’t transferable by ingesting cancerous cells. There are many excellent pathophysiology textbooks you can find on the subject.

On the other hand, people should avoid eating too much meat with carcinogenic preservatives like BHT or charred (burned) meat, because both of these have been shown to increase the risk of cancer.


agape?
January 2nd, 2010 at 6:04 pm


It makes me so happy to know that there are other people out there who care about finding a cure! Visit http://www.curebreastcancer.org when you get a chance. This organization was founded by Dr. Bodai, who created the breast cancer stamp, and has since gone back to Congress in an effort to allow the continuation of the stamp. He is awesome, and that web site should offer a plethora of information and resources. Thank you fo being a part of the fight against Breast Cancer.


Foolish Soul
January 2nd, 2010 at 6:07 pm


Breast cancer and breast tissue cancer is the same thing there is no difference. From 1975 to 2000 1.3 in every one million 15-19 year olds were diagnosed with breast cancer. It is very unlikely your friend has breast cancer if she is only 15 years old.


Wordpress
January 2nd, 2010 at 7:02 pm


With all due respect, it’s impossible to get a blood transfusion by eating the blood of an animal, cooked or raw. The acid in your stomach digests the blood cells.


[nickname]
January 3rd, 2010 at 6:52 pm


No, I don't agree.

Breast cancer awareness and Breast Cancer Awareness Month are not high profile because of celebrity deaths, but for a much simpler reason – sheer hard work.

Breast cancer awareness campaigns and BC Awareness Month started as a campaign by ordinary women, many of them with 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 then big business cashed in).

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. I too have had family members suffer from other cancers – lung, testicular, stomach and cervical cancers and leukaemia, all but one of them dying of their cancers.

There are, as you point out, other cancer awareness months, weeks, ribbons etc; but the fact is none has had the sheer hard work put into it that breast cancer awareness has.

Now, I've had breast cancer and I personally very much dislike BC Awareness Month – or Pink October as the more cynical of us call it.

Support for those with a deadly disease that kills on average 33 women a day in the UK and 112 a day in the US (the only stats I have, I'm not being ethnocentric) has been turned into a marketing opportunity by big business, with around 1% of the cost of specially made pink stuff going to breast cancer charities, the rest into the retailers’ pockets.

The pink fluffy stuff infuriates me, and I'm not at all 'tickled pink' by Asda's (Walmart's) trivialisation of an illness that may yet kill me. October magazines carry stories from cheerful survivors who claim to have the all-clear (there is no all-clear with breast cancer), and often say bc has changed their lives for the better – very different from anybody I know who's had breast cancer.

And it has negative consequences for breast cancer patients too – I believe that the whole thing is counter-productive, that 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.

I've even heard it said that it's a ‘fashionable’ or 'sexy' cancer – my sexy prosthesis and sexy scarred, one-breasted body are evidence that it's no such thing.

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, grueling treatments and so far no cure.

I don't wear a pink ribbon and as someone in remission from breast cancer I support the Think Before You Pink and Pink Stinks! campaigns, both started by women with breast cancer

http://thinkbeforeyoupink.org/?page_id=13

BUT it does annoy me a little when people complain about the attention breast cancer receives in comparison to other cancers. The solution is not less attention for breast cancer, but more attention for other cancers – and there is nothing to stop any group of people starting a campaign along the lines of the one started ny those women who started all the breast cancer awareness. They'd have to be as dedicated and prepared to work as hard though.


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January 4th, 2010 at 5:06 am


nosmas92 i know exacty what your saying that friends say they will be there for you but when it comes to it they are not .

take your strength from mt passed wife and enjoy life dont let this get you down it can be a grate life if you dont let it take over your mind i am uploading a video of her when was told she had 2 weeks to live her strength gave me strength and i hope it will give yo strength


Anonymous
January 4th, 2010 at 9:00 pm


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Free Blog
January 5th, 2010 at 9:05 am


my wife found a lump on her breast on july the 19th 2007 and had it removed in september

but to only pass away on my daughters 4th birthday on the 19th nov 2009 throught her cancer she never gave up been a happy lady with all the pain she went through she passed away in my arms her last breath went across my lips as she died she oassed with my lips on her’s knowing she is loved my story is published on the cancer council victoria under staying strong dated 11/12/08 google it


WPBlog Shop
January 6th, 2010 at 1:19 am


good luck

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