World wide trend.
Time is now for awareness
10/08/2006
Please take a moment today as we make our way through October and head into the holiday months to encourage a woman you know to have a breast exam. One in every eight women will be diagnosed with some form of breast cancer, and that statistic is up from one in 20 in 1960, according to breastcancer.org. How is it that in less than 50 years that number has more than doubled?
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and the news just doesn't seem to get any better - even with all of the millions of dollars being raised each year. As many agencies and organizations make plans for raising money for breast cancer awareness, including Montgomery County's own chapter of the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer and Team Norristown, both in today's big event in Philadelphia, we would hope a renewed focus is on the disease, at least during this month. We have and will continue to support every group that makes an effort to raise funds for breast cancer research. Finding a cure for this horrific disease, which, according to the statistics, is increasing instead of being brought under some type of control, is a must. However, we also would like to make a push for research into the cause of the disease. A second look at the numbers above and a quick check of when we started adding fluoride to our water reveals some correlation, at least in terms of timing.
We are simply re-floating a theory that has been out there for years to perhaps refocus some attention on the cause of breast cancer. After all, wouldn't that be the fastest way to finding a cure?
As you're taking a moment to encourage a family member or friend to have that exam, please take another moment to ask whether a cause has ever been determined, and why.
There is all that fluoride in toothpaste as well as fluoridated water. Not sure screening is the answer as that also contributes to breast cancer.
10/08/2006
Please take a moment today as we make our way through October and head into the holiday months to encourage a woman you know to have a breast exam. One in every eight women will be diagnosed with some form of breast cancer, and that statistic is up from one in 20 in 1960, according to breastcancer.org. How is it that in less than 50 years that number has more than doubled?
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and the news just doesn't seem to get any better - even with all of the millions of dollars being raised each year. As many agencies and organizations make plans for raising money for breast cancer awareness, including Montgomery County's own chapter of the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer and Team Norristown, both in today's big event in Philadelphia, we would hope a renewed focus is on the disease, at least during this month. We have and will continue to support every group that makes an effort to raise funds for breast cancer research. Finding a cure for this horrific disease, which, according to the statistics, is increasing instead of being brought under some type of control, is a must. However, we also would like to make a push for research into the cause of the disease. A second look at the numbers above and a quick check of when we started adding fluoride to our water reveals some correlation, at least in terms of timing.
We are simply re-floating a theory that has been out there for years to perhaps refocus some attention on the cause of breast cancer. After all, wouldn't that be the fastest way to finding a cure?
As you're taking a moment to encourage a family member or friend to have that exam, please take another moment to ask whether a cause has ever been determined, and why.
There is all that fluoride in toothpaste as well as fluoridated water. Not sure screening is the answer as that also contributes to breast cancer.
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