Whenever I get a chance to talk to a group of women about health care, I emphasize that early detection of breast cancer is the key to saving lives.
Last Saturday, I talked with women attending the Camden County Women's Health Fair, an annual event that has lots of vendors and workshops on all aspects of physical and mental health.
I talked about life lessons I learned over the last year as I went through treatment and recovery from breast cancer.
The best part came at the end of my speech when a woman came up to me and said she he'd had a biopsy done but hadn't followed up. After listening to me, she planned to follow up.
That made my day. One more woman who is taking care of herself and will fight to continue to be there for her family.
As I told the women attending the conference, life is good.
Comments (2)
Breast cancer is associated with farm chemicals. Here in Brandonville Schuylkill County Pa. where the wellsare laddened with high cancerous nitrates and a mad farm family that has no love for there neighbors or the environment is where a breast cancer study should be done. Here breast cancer is door to door in this little town that Obamma talks about. I read that fungicides used on strawberries could be the cause if its not high nitrates. Here its all being covered by the political arena since 1987 two years after this mad so called farm family moved here and in my opinion they are the ones responsible for the Chesapeake Bay pollution. The Dept of Health is the Dept of Agriculture which covers up for the crimes here. My fight in all these years have gotten me nowhere and my mother died from breast cancer. Everyone is looking for the cure when the cause here is simple.
Posted by Dennis | April 14, 2008 5:09 PM
Posted on April 14, 2008 17:09
Oh my gosh, thank you so much for sharing this journal of your experience living through this ordeal. My sister has just entered remission from cancer and I am holding my breath for the next five years for clean scans every time. I would also agree that while early detection is important, identifying the environmental causes is really important to stopping the disease from happening at all. BTW, have you ever heard of the Breast Cancer Fund, an organization devoted to exposing and eliminating the environmental causes of breast cancer? Which is amazing, as I don’t know of any other organization working on addressing the root causes of breast cancer. I work for a company called To-Go Ware and we provide non-toxic alternatives to eating on-the-go and support the stance that Breast Cancer Fund takes around removing products that contain toxins from our daily lives (mostly plastics). Just thought you and your readers would like to know that To-Go Ware is running the Together We Can “Beet” Breast Cancer campaign for the month of October, giving 10% of online sales to the Breast Cancer Fund. They are an amazing organization, doing vitally important work to educate folks about the toxins in our environment that are potentially causing breast cancer. I love that my and so many other companies are stepping up and supporting breast cancer research, prevention and survivors! And not just with kitchy, pink gear that is available only during the month of October, but things you can use every single day to increase the chance we have of avoiding all of these toxins in the first place. Let me know if you want more info for your readers. Best of luck in your continued recovery and outreach to others!
Posted by shanno | October 12, 2009 2:22 PM
Posted on October 12, 2009 14:22