October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and Amarillo, Texas marks it with a big ribbon around a horse statue. In NYC store front window displays pledged allegiance. This is the heartland.
I've written about how demonstrating sisterhood on this issue is a profitable thing for merchants, so buyer beware! Shopping for a cause is the in thing and hooks you on the principle of buying emotionally. My mother and others with breast cancer need support (hence breast friends).
Three drinks a day raises the risk for getting breast cancer, an underestimated risk factor. Thanks to my sis-in-law for catching that article this week.
We all know the fear, we all have friends and family who have fought this.
This morning on msn.com on their opening page, there is an article that lists predisposing or causitive factors or risks for breast cancer from a new study. These are all coming out from this new breast cancer meeting in Spain, I think. Lots of interesting carcinogens to consider. I find most important...if you are hormone replacement because you don't like the side effects of menopause...gut it out and get off of them. Interesting piece I saw on the news recently about a young girl that every female in her family had breast cancer...mother, grandmother, sister, cousins, aunts. So she had bilateral prophylactic mastectomies...where they scoop out the breast tissue and put in implants. Then there is the whole implant issue, I guess. So... It is breast cancer awareness month...most important breast self exam. Just do it ! I worked 21 years in a cancer treatment center and 7 years for a breast cancer specialist. I know, oh too well, about this subject.
Posted by: carron hardin | October 01, 2007 at 10:12 AM
Thanks for the info. Of course I can't imagine regularly having three drinks a day. Wow!
Posted by: Eva | October 01, 2007 at 07:04 PM