Make Strides Against Breast Cancer

Yep, it's almost October, which means it's almost Breast Cancer Awareness Month. This means it's time to decide what you're going to do this month for breast cancer awareness.

You can start by visiting the American Cancer Society and check out Making Strides Against Breast Cancer, the ACS walk. You can click on your state to view scheduled walks in your neighborhood.

Sign up for a walk and every step you take will help increase breast cancer awareness.

Video on Risk Factors

Check out this great interactive video/slide show on the statistics and risk factors of breast cancer.


Click here for the video

Staging Breast Cancer

For those who have been diagnosed with breast cancer, staging of the cancer is quite important. Staging provides a way to track where the cancer is and how fast it's growing. This in turn affects both treatment options and survival rates.

See below for a wonderful video from CancerQuest with a description on staging and diagnosing breast cancer.




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It's Time To Vote

That's right readers, it's Friday, which means it's time to cast your vote on the Love/Avon Army of Women PSA video contest. Follow the link and you can view all four videos of the week, if you haven't already, and then you can vote on which you think is the best.

Chemotherapy

Have you ever wondered how chemotherapy works to get rid of cancer? I mean, how does a poison heal someone?

Check out Chemotherapy.com for the answer. It literally breaks down all aspects of this rather effective treatment for cancer.

Wednesday's Video

Readers, here is Wednesday's video for the Love/Avon Army of Women PSA contest


Today's Video - Million in the Mirror, Marc Parees and Ryan Silbert, of New York University's Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television.

Tomorrow is the last video and the vote is on Friday!

A Bit Discouraged

My pet project this week has been a quite informative article on Inflammatory Breast Cancer. This quest has been a very enlightening one. Yes, I know that Inflammatory Breast Cancer, or IBC, is a quite rare type of cancer, however, I am shocked and discouraged at the absolute lack research that has been done on it.

But I'm not a quitter and I won't disappoint. I will find the information.




Readers, if you know of any resources that go into further detail of IBC than what is it, please let me know. Just put down there in the comment field. Thanks!


In the meantime, here is a link to a cancer message board that might be helpful to you. Check it out. Cancercompass