The annual Pink Ribbon Challenge is here again.
Mrs Greyhawk
October is here and it's Breast Cancer Awareness month. Your click on the "Fund Free Mammograms" button helps fund free mammograms, paid for by site sponsors whose ads appear after you click and provided to women in need through the efforts of the National Breast Cancer Foundation to low-income, inner-city and minority women, whose awareness of breast cancer and opportunity for help is often limited.
It takes less than a minute to go to their site and click on "donating a mammogram" for free (pink window below). This doesn't cost you a thing. Their corporate sponsors/advertisers use the number of daily visits to donate mammogram in exchange for advertising. Their goal marker is 500 mammograms. If clicks totals reach 500 mammograms in October, Bare Neccesities (their premier sponsor) will fund an additional 200 mammograms.
Click every day to give hope
to women in need. It's free!
They can meet and beat that goal with your help. Please tell your friends about the Pink Ribbon Challenge and keep clicking!
To help fund breast cancer research at the Mayo Clinic (every donation is matched!), and use Pink Ribbon Search to help fund more mammograms.
Consider a secure, online contribution to our charity partner, National Breast Cancer Foundation.
For a long time now we've had a link to the Breast Cancer Site on our sidebar. That link is in place in honor of my mother and Greyhawk's sister, both of whom are survivors because of early detection.
Update:
A commenter has reminded us, self examiniations are the most important tool in early detection.
Posted by Mrs Greyhawk at 03:01 PM |
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While I have nothing against Mammagrams I have personally known 3 women with breast cancer. My wife, my daughter and my sister-in-law. All three found their cancers by self examination. In my wife's case she had regular mammagrams and two more after she had found it. They were all negative. It was only confirmed by a biopsy. Fortunately it was in the early stages and she did not have to undergo radiation or chemo. My sister-in-law also had regular mammagrams but hers had spread to the lymph nodes and she had the full treatment. A mammagram after she found it was also negative. It was also confirmed by a biopsy. My daughter was young enough to be outside the age range for regular recommended mammagrams. Her's was confirmed by an ultra-sound. She did not have a mammagram so I don't know if it would have been found or not. It had also spread to the lymph nodes. Losing your hair is traumatic in your 30's.
All 3 had radical breast removal. None of them had a family history of breast cancer.
What's my point? Get a mammagram. It's a tool in the fight on cancer but don't let it give you a false sense of security. Self examination is still EXTREMELY important and let your Dr. know of any changes. No one knows your body like you.
Jim
Posted by James Rodgers at October 6, 2005 04:01 PM
You might want to read "Truth Brings Out Worst at Denver’s “Race for the Cure”"
http://www.operationrescue.org/?p=274
Posted by DaveH at October 6, 2005 05:29 PM
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