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The Code Words of Breast-Cancer Awareness
Seeded on Tue Nov 16, 2010 12:35 AM EST
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A friend of mine's 12-year-old daughter has taken to wearing a bracelet, one of those rubber, Lance Armstrong-style affairs, that says on it, "I ❤ Boobies."
"Oh, yeah," she said, vaguely, when questioned about it. "It's for breast cancer."
Really?
It's hard to remember that, not so long ago, the phrase "breast cancer" was not something women spoke aloud, even among themselves. It wasn't until the early 1970s, with the high-profile diagnoses of the former child star Shirley Temple Black, the first lady Betty Ford and Happy Rockefeller that the disease went public. A short time later, Betty Rollin, an NBC-TV correspondent, published the groundbreaking memoir "First You Cry." Back then, her grief over losing her breast and the blow cancer dealt to her sex life was greeted with hostility by some critics and dismissed as frivolous. Mammography was just coming into use to detect early-stage tumors. The American Cancer Society was still resisting the idea of support groups for post-mastectomy patients. A woman like Rollin, some said, was supposed to be grateful that she qualified for a radical mastectomy, stuff a sock in her bra and get on with it.
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#1 - Tue Nov 16, 2010 12:45 AM ESTBy making consumers feel good without actually doing anything meaningful, it discourages understanding, undermining the search for better detection, safer treatments, causes and cures for a disease that still afflicts 250,000 women annually (and speaking of figures, the number who die has remained unchanged — hovering around 40,000 — for more than a decade).
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#2 - Tue Nov 16, 2010 10:54 AM ESTMy take? Here are nine things to consider.
Mammograms help cause cancer tumors.
The Medical doctors, pharmaceutical companies, and medical researchers on federal grants form a sinister cabal.
The much vaunted cancer treatment methods (cut, burn, poison) are not effective enough.
The cause of tumor growth, the anaerobic metabolism, and the weakness of the immune system are not addressed by the 1972 "War on Cancer".
Nutritional support for the immune system is ignored as well as the emotional and dietary precursors of cancer.
Vitamin C supplements. Intravenous vitamin C. Liposome-encapsulated vitamin C (LEC).
Anecdotally, a Canadian man concentrated the resin from marijuana to treat cancer. He was targeted by the police and bureaucracy. The idea was ignored by the medical establishment.
Even the doctor in Texas, Burzinski, who has done amazing work with anti-neoplastins and has much success treating brain tumors has been attacked by FDA bureaucracy. Yes, the seed of hope for a cure.
It's as if the medical cartel doesn't want to find a cure for cancer. They want to keep the status quo --- the flow of money and more cancer cases! Yes, that's cynical.
Quote of the day:
"The plural of anecdote is not data." --- Ben Goldacre, in Bad Science (2010)
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Although I suspect your question was merely to gain traffic on your posted article, I will add another item.
I disdain the Marches for (some disability or malady) and Pledge Drives for (fill in the blank) because they are promoted by middlemen organizations that take a large fraction of the donations (40%).
Forty percent is about the same percentage that bloated charities like the Red Cross and United Way take off the top to support their huge CEO salaries as well as their VIP travel and marketing budgets.
[Scott, are you unemployed again?]
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#3 - Tue Nov 16, 2010 9:43 PM ESTAlthough I suspect your question was merely to gain traffic on your post
My first question or when I asked you to elaborate beyond quoting an excerpt?
I'm insulted by your implication
i'm employed - working full time
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Sorry, for the insult. Good news to hear. I'm working part-time as a collector. I just noticed that you're online a lot.
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My work weekend is monday and tuesday
since i work wed to sunday
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