F—#*!!!! CANCER!
Every so often I go roaming the internet late at night. I followed the blog of my friend Anna, and ran into the devastating stories of more lives lost, to ovarian cancer.
My support of Deadline 2020 for the end of breast cancer is something I am 110% behind because it’s time for the end of ALL cancer. Yes, that is ambitious, but it’s logical. The important pieces we learn about one cancer often leads to inroads into understanding other cancers. We will wipe out breast cancer when we understand how to prevent it, and how to stop metastasis. Do do that we need a major paradigm shift, because currently only less than 5% of research currently goes into the study of metastatic disease. People don’t die of cancer in the breast. They die of metastatic disease. What the @#!!! is going on here? When we understand this process and how to stop it, the treatments for many cancers will change. For more on what’s really going on in breast cancer research, check out the Deadline 2020 website.
I lost my father to Lymphoma when I was 19 and he was 44. I have several friends with metastatic breast cancer and I am reading all across cyberspace about more deaths, a tide that has to be stopped.
Fran Visco said this weekend that when we reach January 1, 2020, we will all be out of a job, because we will have accomplished our objective.
Not me. Not until it’s over for all of us.
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YEEEEEESSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!
YEEEESSSSS INDEED!
Hope is what you do on the couch while you wait for the helping faires to come.
We will get off our butts and BE the help. I know I need a deadline. Fantastic idea!
Yes. I’m with you too. I would have loved to be at that conference with all of you. Through the live tweets from Susan and others I felt I was. If you are on twitter now you can find me as jaydub26
Metastatic cancer – of any type – is bad news and a killer. I’ve danced around it on my blog before, since I have the damn thing and I don’t want to worry my mother, but that time is over.
Let’s do this.
Right on Susan. We ARE going to do this. My blogger email list is going out later today (stalled by the needs of offspring…thank God for weekends!) and I’m making a list of everyone in the community I can get to engage in this urgent objective. I’ve had enough of pink, let’s see the INK!
Yes, we must end cancer and I am glad we have a deadline. After surviving breast cancer two times after chemo, radiation and then a bilateral mastectomy, it has been horrible to watch two family members die of metastatic cancer. My best friend has triple negative breast cancer with mets, and I wish we could find a cure sooner since her timeline is more like 2014, although I don’t like to put expiration date labels on anyone. Pink isn’t what you see when you watch someone dying. Black is more like it.
OMG, what if we started wearing black ribbons? !!!!