BREAST CANCER 1
My previous Blog continued.
Five photos: the White house bathed in pink; Delta Airlines cabin-crew dressed in pink; Toronto CN Tower; and another monument – all to mark the Breast Cancer (BC) Awareness month, October, that came to an end yesterday, 31 October.
Five photos: the White house bathed in pink; Delta Airlines cabin-crew dressed in pink; Toronto CN Tower; and another monument – all to mark the Breast Cancer (BC) Awareness month, October, that came to an end yesterday, 31 October.
The criticism is that:
-- the Pink Ribbon begun 25 years ago - by American Charlotte Harley whose sister, daughter and granddaughter had breast cancer – to signify BC awareness, has become nothing more than feel good catch all marketing opportunity.
-- the incidence of BC has not reduced: 1.7 million new cases world-wide in 2012, that is, 12% of all new cancer cases and 25% of all cancers in women; that BC remains second most common cancer overall.
-- screening like Mammogram has led to over-diagnosis, false positive results, and over- treatment, that is, treating cancers that would never have become life threatening .
-- research funding for BC, $600 million a year in the US, and $31 m in UK, is minuscule
-- no significant research on BC prevention (vaccine) and metastasis prevention
-- the incidence of BC has not reduced: 1.7 million new cases world-wide in 2012, that is, 12% of all new cancer cases and 25% of all cancers in women; that BC remains second most common cancer overall.
-- screening like Mammogram has led to over-diagnosis, false positive results, and over- treatment, that is, treating cancers that would never have become life threatening .
-- research funding for BC, $600 million a year in the US, and $31 m in UK, is minuscule
-- no significant research on BC prevention (vaccine) and metastasis prevention
In short, the time for ‘Awareness’ is over; time for ‘action’ is upon us.
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