Join the sister study, the radio announcer said this morning as I was driving in. If you've never had breast cancer but your sister has had it, join the study to help determine the effects of the disease in families.
So I checked out the link on the Black America Web. Biological sisters are needed to join the study as well as more African American women. The hope is to double the number of African American women in the study.
Here's what I learned from BAW:
The Sister Study is a nationwide effort to learn the environmental and genetic causes of breast cancer. We need 50,000 women who have never had breast cancer but whose sister has had the disease to participate. Of the 45,000 women who have joined the Sister Study so far, only 3,800 are African American. With your help, we hope to double the number of African American sisters in the Sister Study over the next few months.
If you are a woman between the ages of 35 and 74 years old
and you have never had breast cancer yourself
and you live in the U.S. or Puerto Rico
and your sister (living or deceased), related to you by blood, had breast cancer
(Don’t forget to call 1-877-4SISTER to complete the enrollment process.)
Breast cancer has deadlier results in African American women so information from the study can help save and prolong lives.
Pass it on.
Comments (1)
Good job on getting the word out. It might be helpful to allay fears if Ms. Long put more info up about what else is required in the study and how easy it is, such as if the case, a saliva sample, that DNA studied is not retrievable for other purposes, that sort of thing.
Because of all the good efforts of the Pink month (yes, I'm late) of October, I scheduled a mammogram, my first. I intend to brag about that to my mother in law, who refuses to have one. She and I compete about everything!
Posted by Anonymous | December 20, 2007 2:25 PM
Posted on December 20, 2007 14:25