I applaud the campaign against breast cancer, but shouldn't there be more attention given to all cancers?
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I agree that attention should be given to other cancers. Whoever said that breast cancer "deserves" the most attention is obviously a very ignorant person. Teenagers 14-19 are becoming an age group to focus on concerning cancer dx and treatment. This is the ONLY age group that is not seeing a decrease in cancer rates. Also, only 10% of 14-19 yr. olds are included in clinical trials for cancer research, wheras 90% of children under the age of 14 are included. My daughter who is 14 has thyroid cancer. She has undergone 2 surgeries and is about to begin radiation. September was Childhood Cancer Awareness month and also Thyroid Cancer Awareness month. There are people who don't even realize children can get thyroid cancer, and that is soooo frustrating to me. NO CHILD should ever have to suffer from cancer and more attention must be brought to light about childhood cancer. Thanks for bringing up an excellent point.
Are you sure children and men, too, don't die from breast cancer? You get breasts at the age of 11 or 12 and you sure as hell can get cancer in them.
Men, too.
I agree there should be. But the radical nature of breast cancer treatment, sometimes removing the breast, brings in all other sorts of questions of identity and femininity that cut to the quick of what it really means to suffer from a life-threatening/changing illness.
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