Japanese scientists have discovered an enzyme that could suppress breast cancer, according to this article by Reuters.
Breast cancer is the second-most-common form of breast cancer - after lung cancer - and killed a half-million people worldwide in 2005.
Friends who have survived cancer have told me that this is the best time in history to get cancer. Decades ago, cures, medicine - and hope - were just not there yet. My grandmother died of leukemia in the early '50s. She died on the train from Spokane to Portland to get treatment. I suspect she never really had a chance, as she was misdiagnosed as having anemia, so her cancer was caught too late.
Now, it feels as though science is on the cusp of a cure.
I recently met a woman whose son is in medical school, and he plans to study cancer. "He's going to cure cancer," his proud mother told me.
"Tell him to hurry up!" I replied. "I could use a cure right about now."
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Bless you Andy Perdue and the Herald staff for showing that pink is not the only color of the rainbow during October.
As the Oct. 13 article, "Breast cancer charity motives doubted," suggested, most nonbreast cancer survivors are sick of pink! Breast cancer may kill some 40,000 women each year, but that's the same amount as ovarian, melanoma and other rarer cancers combined. Why shouldn't we have the same awareness?
While the survival rate for breast cancer has risen steeply to 85 percent in the last two decades, other rarer cancers' survival numbers have remained stagnant near 20 or lower. We are where breast cancer was 30 years ago, before anyone knew what a mammogram was. And people are dying because of it.
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Fast focus: Each life is a gift
I know too many people who have battled cancer. They weren't all breast cancer, but in my mind and heart, cancer is cancer. It turns life as we know it upside down. Many times I have felt helpless because all I could do is sit next to my friend or family member and just offer encouragement, not answers. During the last 15 years, I have learned that the little bit of encouragement I offered was enough for those to fight that extra minute, day or even month.
I was lucky to have each person who battled cancer in my life because it made me able to battle the little things. I love each one of my friends and family members for different reasons. I loved my mom, Carolyn, for the strength she had with breast cancer to put up with bratty teenagers. I loved my ex-mother-in-law, Donna, for accepting me for me as she battled breast cancer. I loved my best friend, Kelly, for holding my hand while I went through a divorce at the same time she was battling ovarian cancer. I love Woody for fighting for that extra day so
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NY mayor pledges up to $250K to Planned Parenthood
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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is pledging up to $250,000 to Planned Parenthood to offset funds that were cut by the Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast cancer foundation.
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