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Comment on Imerman Angels by Megan Fulton

Megan Fulton — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:30:44 +0000

Hi Sally! I love your blog and would love to talk to you about your story!

Comment on Gastric Cancer Fund Joins Blogging World by JP

JP — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:02:49 +0000

Sally,

Thanks for the support! Trying to learn from experts like you! Slowly but surely, we’re making progress.

Be well!

Comment on Comment From Reader by JBBC

JBBC — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:44:03 +0000

Sally I have to agree with you, with all due respect to the person who left the comment. Cancer touches the lives of most of us on this planet at some stage in our livetime. No one is immune and it leaves families and friends bereft – mothers and fathers loose sons and daughters, brothers loose sisters, sisters loose brothers, children loose parents and on it goes. I am sure your stats are frighteningly true. Cancer remains a devastating disease despite all the advances we have made in medical science.
http://beyondbreastcancer.wordpress.com/

Comment on Where Were You? by Henrike

Henrike — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:25:39 +0000

It’s even more powerful and really mind boggling, when you think about the fact, that those 1,500 are US only. More than 3,000 Europeans die from cancer every day (http://www.ecpc-online.org/press-room/106-cancer-task-force.html).

People will have a hard time grasping that we loose that many people to cancer on a daily basis (and that doesn’t even include Asia, South America and Australia).

Both events are terrible tragedies. We can’t change the death total of 9/11 and Americans and everyone around the globe will always remember the victims and their families, especially on this day.

However, we can work together and unite to change the death totals of cancer! It’s about time to act and change those numbers for the better!

Comment on Where Were You? by salnix

salnix — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:54:31 +0000

I always respect feedback – both positive and negative. Thank you for sharing your views. As I made sure to mention: “In posting this I am not trying to minimize the tragedy that occurred eight years ago today.” I have friends who lost loved ones, and I had friends working at the Pentagon as well. It was a day that changed us as a country.

As of this spring 2,998 died in the terror attacks.
•19 terrorists
•2,966 victims

All but 13 people died on that day. The remaining 13 later died of their wounds. One person has died since the attacks, of lung cancer. It is suspected to have been caused by all the debris from the Twin Towers.

It is also a fact that 560,000 Americans are expected to die from cancer this year, or more than 1,500 per day. 1500 x 2 = 3000.

It is a powerful comparison.

Comment on Ellagic Acid – Great Article by sandrar

sandrar — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:00:20 +0000

Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog. Cheers! Sandra. R.

Comment on “We are the troops on the front lines.” by JBBC

JBBC — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:42:22 +0000

Thanks for providing a link to this story on my blog. This lady is a living example of what Lance Armstrong calls the “obligation of the cured”. She has turned her cancer experience into something powerful!

Comment on Kaiser Permanente Breast Cancer Prevention Study Dramatically Increases Mammography Rates by D.Duffy

D.Duffy — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:05:51 +0000

URGGGGH!! This makes me so mad! Every time I see that Kaiser commercial about getting a mammogram and getting older I get mad too. I argued with my breast care specialist about getting a mammogram. I said “what’s the use, it always comes back showing nothing. She made me get one and guess what? It showed nothing! Except it didn’t! There was a tumor right there. Three months later the tumor was over double the size.

What’s the use of getting a mammogram when they can’t read them right? And if it’s too dense to read why don’t they get an MRI? And why don’t they believe you when you say you have a strong family history of breast cancer?

URGGGGGH!!

Comment on Drew Olanoff by dphealthcareconsulting

dphealthcareconsulting — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:27:43 +0000

Special invitation to all breast cancer bloggers. This month the Being Cancer Book Club is reading “The Adventures of Cancer Bitch” by S. L. Wisenberg, “witty and relentless, surprising and honest. Wisenberg has walked through the Valley of Cancer and she is willing to tell all; this is a cornucopia of breast cancer information as well as a very smart, funny read from an excellent writer.”—Audrey Niffenegger, author, The Time Traveler’s Wife.
Book discussions are in Mondays’ posts. Take care, Dennis

Comment on Life Beyond Treatment – by Kairol Rosenthal, Guest Blogger by dphealthcareconsulting

dphealthcareconsulting — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:25:47 +0000

Open invitation to you and your readers to participate in the Being Cancer Book Club. This month we are discussing “The Last Lecture” by Randy Pausch. “…the lecture he gave … was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment (because “time is all you have…and you may find one day that you have less than you think”). It was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe. It was about living.”
Monday is Book Club day; Tuesday Guest Blog and Friday Cancer News Roundup.
Also check out Cancer Blog Links containing almost 200 blog links and Cancer Resources with 230 referenced sites, both divided into disease categories.
Please accept this invitation to join our growing cancer blogging community at http://www.beingcancer.net
Take care, Dennis