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Breast Cancer
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ah man that's really devastating
i lost my granny at the start of the summer there to bone cancer, it's in my family
I clicked ofcourse
Clicked. A group of girlies who are all members of OcUK did the Race for Life earlier this year, raising well in excess of £2k for Cancer Research UK. So proud for all of us for doing it and hopefully it's making a difference.
It's the most common form of cancer in women and apparently about 1 in 9 women are affected at some point in their lives. It's also very easy to detect if you just go for a mammogram (i.e. a non-invasive procedure). I think it probably gets a lot of attention because if detected early enough, it's usually relatively easy to treat. The death rates in the UK have fallen by a fifth in the last 10 years! That's pretty good. Men can also get breast cancer, but it's nowhere near as common as it is in women. I think Tom Cruise has had it.
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Ive Clicked and sent the link on to my Mum who will send the link around her school,hopefully we can start to help out those who really need it.
Lost my auntie a few years ago, started out as breast cancer and then ran through her entire body, blood, bone, lung, liver, brain until it was to much for her body to cope with, such a brave and wonderful woman.
Jen x
Lost my auntie a few years ago, started out as breast cancer and then ran through her entire body, blood, bone, lung, liver, brain until it was to much for her body to cope with, such a brave and wonderful woman.
Jen x
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i know i've been beaten in replying to you - but this is a topic i am pretty interested in
in the not so distant past breast cancer has over taken lung cancer as the most common cancer in women
statistics say that approximately 1 in every 8 women will develop breast cancer at some point in their lives (risk increases with age, being overweight and excessive consumption of alcohol)
however...
current research suggests that 2/3 of patients who receive treatment for breast cancer will live over 20 years after their treatment - and to be classed as 'cured' in statistics such as this, it means 5 year disease free survival following treatment.
so, it may only account for a small proportion of deaths, but that doesn't mean that it is not a prevalent disease
now take lung cancer for example, when was the last time you saw a lung cancer charity advertised?
breast cancer is a hot topic, people know people who have had it, people survive after treatment and campaign for its cause.
where as with lung cancer, survival past 5 years is minimal, it has one of the lowest survival outcomes of any cancer - people do not often 'live through it' and go onto campaign. it is also seen as a disease with 'blame' - smokers get lung cancer, if they hadn't smoked, they wouldn't have it...
funding cancer research is very very important *click* but i would always advocate donating money to a charity which looks into every cancer, and not just breast cancer
