Breast Cancer Awareness Month Should Be Prevention Month!
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The first on the list of sponsors is the American cancer Society or ACS, the richest not-for-profit organization in the world as some critics call. Sponsors also include American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists representing 51,000 physicians, American College of Radiology representing 32,000 radiologists, American Society of Clinical Oncology, representing 25,000 cancer physicians, and AstraZeneca Healthcare Foundation organized by the drug maker of Arimidex and Tamoxifen. Some other major medical associations and government agencies are also listed as sponsors for the national Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
The campaign organizer seems to act as a service provider to help patients with information on breast cancer, its diagnosis and treatment including early detection and mammograms/screening. There is lots of information on its website for that effort. But there is nothing about prevention meant to stop the malignancy from developing in the first place, which is understandable. If there is no breast cancer or the incidence is significantly reduced by some effective prevention measures, the cancer business would see a huge dip in revenue.
I agree that this campaign gives breast cancer survivors some comfort. They would feel that many people and organizations stand behind them and help them fight the disease that could take their life at any minute. In a sense, many patients benefit from this breast cancer awareness campaign.
But it seems to me that the industry and the government do not seem interested much in research to find out how to prevent the disease in the first place, which unfortunately could disservice the industry. The best interest for the industry could be to find some treatment that can sustain the patients’ lives, but not cure the disease.
Breast cancer is expected to be diagnosed in one in every 8 women in their lifetime in the United States. It is up to women how to act to deal with the risk. They can wait to get the disease and then resort to doctors and hospitals for treatments that are no cure for the disease or they can be proactive and do something to prevent the disease from developing in the first place.
There are many things women can do reduce the risk of breast cancer that vitamizes 182,000 women and kill 40,000 each year in the U.S. But the most important thing to remember is that no one should wait for her doctors or the government to give her the answers regarding the prevention of breast cancer.
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