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By: Ginger | June 05, 2009 | Category: Health

participants walking in the Tomorrow the streets of Washington, DC will be filled with a sea of people participating in the first ever Susan G. Komen Global Race for the Cure. Every year people gather together to show their support by walking or running to raise money for the fight against breast cancer. This year, “The Race” has gone global. Breast cancer knows no borders. It doesn't discriminate. It affects people in all countries and all ethnic groups.

Many of the people participating in this event are currently battling or have survived breast cancer. Many who participate will have loved ones currently fighting for their lives or have loved ones they have lost to this horrific disease.

Among the crowd will be mothers who have/had breast cancer participating in the hopes of helping to find a cure, so that their daughters may never know what it is like to lose a breast(s); experience hair loss and nausea of chemotherapy; or to know the intense fear upon hearing four simple words, “You have breast cancer.”

Among the crowd there will be young women who watched their mothers fight breast cancer. They know that they too have an increased risk of some day developing it. In the back of their minds they live with the troubling knowledge that they may also have to battle this disease one day.

When we think of breast cancer, we usually think of it as a woman's disease, but the reality is that anyone can get breast cancer. I worked for someone who lost a brother to breast cancer. Recently there was a national news story of a 10-year old girl diagnosed with breast cancer. Here is a list of resources to help educate and raise awareness:

I know the world is a complicated place. This will sound totally “hippie” of me, but for one day let's come together globally. Instead of fighting each other, let's band together to fight one of the real enemies among us, breast cancer. If we can do work together for one day, maybe we can try for 2 days, then 3, then 4. You get my drift.

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blue comment bubble Posted by Denise on June 05, 2009 at 01:54 PM EDT

Fighting cancer by coming together globally does not sound "hippie" at all.

My sister fought pancreatic cancer and I realized at that time that we need to come together to share research and alternative therapies for the betterment of our healthcare system. Drugs and pills are not the only answer to the issues of our sick care system ..

Denise
http://healthcare-or-sickcare.blogspot.com

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blue comment bubble Posted by Paul Blake MH on June 06, 2009 at 07:09 AM EDT

Excuse me for being a wet blanket Ginger I know your heart is in the right place. But have you ever thought that if you added up all the money collected by modern medicine to find a cure it would amount to hundreds of billions of dollars. And I am not even counting the money the government gives them. The reason I say that is because they have not found a cure in 60 years. I wonder if they are even trying to find a cure? Having one form of medical treatment is like having a choice of just one car, hair style, clothing or house. Does this make sense to you? Paul

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blue comment bubble Posted by Ginger on June 08, 2009 at 07:41 AM EDT

Paul, I can't dispute your claims that a lot of time and money has been spent to try to find a cure. I'm sure there has, but to doubt that "they" are not trying to find a cure seems kind of cynical and sounds a bit conspiracy based. Hey, I like a good conspiracy, but not seeing the upside of allowing cancer or other horrible disease to continue killing people.

Why would they not want to find a cure? Many researchers get into research because a particular disease has touched them personally. You mention how they haven't found a cure in the last 60 years, but don't you think significant progress has been made? Look how many more people survive things like cancer now. Don't you think that a lot of that progress was a result in the struggle to find a cure?

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blue comment bubble Posted by Andrea on June 08, 2009 at 02:02 PM EDT

Even though a cure may not be found, just advances made is tremendous. We walk for the JDRF because our lives are personally touched by Type 1 Diabetes... Thanks to the research and fund raising there have been advances in insulin types and technology, amoung many other things, to make my daughter's life that much easier until a cure is found. No matter the cause, there always has to be hope.

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