So let me put on some "Pink" because it's the official color of the cause.
Breast cancer awareness is a noble cause, and you may ask why the blog header picture is about Halloween and not Breast Cancer during this month. Well I see Cancer in any form as a serious disease and giving it just one month of notoriety is unjust. Plus Second Life is suppose to be about fun, Halloween is fun, cancer is not and I have lost plenty of people to Cancer.
And what is with the NFL wearing pink for a month? If some sport wants to wear pink let it be golf or bowling, Not the NFL!
Now let me dazzle you with some facts:
As you can see Breast cancer is far from the deadliest form of cancer. What month is Lung cancer awareness month? and what color do we wear that month? Men, Prostate, Colon & Rectum cancer is going to kill more of you than breast cancer.
So you ask why don't we hear as much about these other cancers as we do Breast cancer? Well that simple, BOOBIES!!! Everyone loves them, whether you're male or female from a few years before you hit puberty you care about boobs. Girls want to have them, and boys want to touch them.
In 2009, breast cancer research received $872 million worth of federal funding, while prostate cancer received $390 million. It is estimated that 2010 will end similarly, with breast cancer research getting $891 million and prostate cancer research receiving $399 million.
Donate to finding a cure (all year).
It is not often I am moved to write in response to an article but this one got me so angry I felt I had to say something. How petty and small minded can a person become to treat different cancer causes as some sort of competition.
ReplyDeleteWhat you fail to point out is breast cancer is one of the prime causes of death in women.
It is no way belittling other causes to wish to promote awareness for a cause which is close to your heart. If people want to promote the various other cancers so be it I am sure they will get full support.
And yes SL should be fun but it does no harm to take a brief amount of time out of your day to consider others less fortunate than yourself.
Finally SL is a worldwide enterprise not just America. Breast and other cancers are killers all over the world and in some countries it requires campaigns like this to raise awareness and attention.
Awareness campaigns throw the spotlight on educating about how to examine etc, at home. Not all diseases can be spotted early on by an ordinary person, so its important to show the ones that can be.
So please do your self serving pontificating elsewhere and allow people to support the causes they wish when they want
Louise Silverweb
No sure where you get that I think it’s a competition, I simple made a comparison.
ReplyDeleteNo it’s NOT the prime cause of death in women, Lung & Bronchus is 26% to 14% in the findings from the American Cancer Society. The thing is Breast cancer awareness is so publicized that most think breast cancer is the prime cause when it’s NOT. (As show in the picture above)
If we combine the cancer death of both men and women, you find that:
Lung & Bronchus kills, 160,340
Prostrate, Colon & Rectum kills, 79,860
Breast cancer kills, 39,510
I did not belittle breast cancer, or asked to take anyone’s freedom to support the causes they wish away. I simply pointed out there are other forms that should get as much publicity as Breast cancer and it should be a year around awareness not just for a month.
i do agree with Emily.. all cancers are bad and all need to be looked at... and researched.. i work in a nursing facility dealing with my patients dying from all types of cancer... i do alot in rl fundraising and walks and marathins for ALL types of cancers... i know.. a color or symbol or day or month singles out a certain type.. but in todays society... WE NEED that for people to wake up and say hey we need to do something this month for this one and this month for another one.. its how WE keep the people to remember by relay for life for all or pink for breasts or orange for lukemia or black for children suffering and so on.. a 13 yr old taught my community to USE thos signs wear them show them be proud ... "pay it FORWARD" to spread the word to get people to see.. he taught us that in his last month of life and it reached not only our comunity, county, state.. but people in thru out the usa, into europe and other countries... A 13YR OLD BOY in his last month of life did this.. let us know we need to do this to make it known.. so #GOBO.. #YOLO.. #PAYITFORWARD... ( LUV YOU EMILY.. AND I DO AGREE WE NEED TO FIGHT AND FIND A CURE FOR CANCER PERIOD!!!)
ReplyDelete• In 2011, an estimated 230,480 new cases of invasive breast cancer
will be diagnosed among women, as well as an estimated 57,650
additional cases of in situ breast cancer (Table 1).
• In 2011, approximately 39,520 women are expected to die from
breast cancer (Table 1). Only lung cancer accounts for more
cancer deaths in women.
• In 2011, about 2,140 cases of breast cancer are expected to occur
among men, accounting for about 1% of all breast cancers. In
addition, approximately 450 men will die from breast cancer
Oh Louise! How ironic that you should mention "self-serving pontificating." ;-)
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