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.
Maybe if we had a Susan G. Komen for the Cure of Nonbreast Cancer, or hundreds of companies willing to jump on the band wagon to raise awareness and earn a buck, more of us could be cured too.
The breast cancer campaign has been hugely successful. So now let's shift awareness to where it's needed and save lives. As Andy's series has shown, there is a beautiful rainbow of survivors out there. Let's advocate for all of them, not just in October but all year around.
Kay Kerbyson, West Richland
