Spreading the message
Breast cancer is a cancer that killed 502,000 people in the year 2005. It kills so many people every single year and the unfortunate thing about it is that if people were to detect it soon enough, that number could be largely reduced. That is the important thing to know about breast cancer. If it can be caught early enough, it can actually be isolated and destroyed before it gets too dangerous. However, women don’t go for their six month or yearly mammogram, so they don’t know that they have a problem until the tumor has been there for a couple of years and by then, it is too late.
Breast Cancer Awareness’ job is to try and get women to go for their schedule mammograms. Basically, every October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. Women wear pink patches as a symbol of breast cancer and as a hope to try to get women to understand the importance of getting their mammogram. The thing that women don’t understand is that if a cancer is caught early enough, by means of the mammogram, a doctor can go in and get the tumor out before it has done any significant damage. That’s the important part of the mammogram. It’s a warning for doctors.
It is normally around this time that women walk for different breast cancer walks in the hope of raising money to find a cure. That is an important thing. If a cure could be found, a lot of women’s lives could be saved each and every year. Even the government donates money in an effort to try and find a cure for this killer. In the year 2007, the government spent $844 million on breast cancer research. All of that money could go towards trying to find a cure as well as finding new chemotherapies that might work. All of this helps with the fight against breast cancer.
October is an important month for these women. It’s a time where people are devoted to just breast cancer. George Bush, in the year 2006, declared October as the month that would be the Breast Cancer Awareness month. What this did was gave the breast cancer foundations more power to get their word across. And their word was very basic. Women, get your mammograms. By getting your mammograms, you can find potentially threats and remove them before they become too terrible. This is the first step in fighting the problem. Getting a mammogram once a year or even twice a year is what they recommend and it is highly recommended. Get rid of the cancer before surgeries or chemotherapies or radiation have to be used. Make life easier and life will be easier. The Breast Cancer Awareness Month is a month to educate. And they do a good job at it.