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Originally Posted by Russ_Boston
Great sentiment Gracie!
I just wish that other more deadly diseases were given the same awareness that we give breast cancer. In my practice thus far I see diseases such as diabetes causing far more issues. In fact during 2007 Diabetes was listed as a cause or contributor to death in over 200K cases ( http://www.diabetes.org/diabetes-bas...es-statistics/) while breast cancer had around 40K in the same year http://www.cancer.org/acs/groups/con...fffinalpdf.pdf). And these are only the deaths! The amount of morbidity caused by diabetes is astounding and dwarfs that of breast cancer.
But that's just my rant for the silent majority. I do support the breast cancer foundation and have great empathy for those families that have been afflicted and those that continue to live with the aftermath of this and other horrible cancers. |
Russ, You are so right that not every illness get's enough funding to wipe them out. I would never argue that. However, just a little history about the breast cancer funding.
Breast cancer was a major killer of women for years and very little funding went to the cure. We were losing our mothers, sisters, aunts and friends and watching funds go to so many other diseases and and very little going to Breast Cancer awareness and the cure. This is the one month we women and the men who support us pull together to make people aware. The reason so many women are living now is because they are aware.
That being said, November is diabetes awareness month. Why don't you call the paper and see if they will do the same thing for diabetes in November and maybe even have a benefit for the disease in TV.
We can post information on TOTV to make people aware so they can recognize it early and get help before it becomes a major problem. Diabetes is another disease that because people aren't aware of all the options and health issues, they become ill and die.
I'm sure there are a lot of people who would get behind you to help make it happen.
I know I would.