Monday, December 24, 2012

Why is there so much hype over breast cancer

Why is there so much hype over breast cancer?
Breast cancer is only the 4th most common type of cancer, yet it seems to receive the most attention from the media.
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1 :
1 in 8 women get it. And it is easy to treat if you find it soon enough. And it is a simple test to do to diagnose it yet women don't go every year to get tested.
2 :
You being a male, it figures you'd ask this question. You DO know men get breast cancer too, don't you?
3 :
This is going to be an unpopular answer, but here goes.... Part of it is that breast cancer is one of the "feel-good" causes that celebrities support, which then gets media coverage. Think back to the mid-late 80's with AIDS, and how almost everyone wore a red ribbon, and if you chose NOT to, you were deemed a homophobe, or you didn't care. Now breast cancer is treated in the same way (by the way, I'd like to see ALL cancers defeated, I lost my mom to cancer 4 years ago), with the pink ribbon, and again in some cases if you don't wear a pink ribbon, or don't support the Komen foundation, you "hate women" or worse.
4 :
The answer to your question is 'hard work'. Breast cancer awareness campaigns and BC Awareness Month started as a campaign by ordinary women, many of them with cancer, to raise awareness so that people knew the symptoms, examined themselves regularly, attended their routine mammograms etc. Enthusiastic participation and hard work by women made it grow into something nationally, then internationally, recognised (and then big business cashed in). There are other cancer awareness months, ribbons etc; but no cancer campaign has had the sheer hard work put into it that breast cancer awareness has. Any group of people can start such an awareness campaign for any illness. If they wanted the attention breast cancer campaigns have though, they'd have to be prepared to work every bit as hard.
5 :
Breast cancer now days is getting very common. My sis had breast cancer and had the mass removed from her breast which had also spread to the lymph nodes under the left arm pit. And they took out 36 lymph nodes . And she had to have Chemo and the radiation. 26 treatments. She had been in remission for 11 years. And a few weeks ago they found another lump and removed it and say they got it all and she would not have to through all the treatments again. But the doctor did tell her that if you've had breast cancer and gotten rid of it, if it would come back it would more than likely attack the lungs. So even though it's the 4th more common it definitely does deserve the attention of the media. Because what they bring in does go to the cancer research.

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