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BREAST CANCER AWARENESS
June 14, 2008Let’s give our support for this Breast Cancer Awareness. Let’s share what we can afford to share. Help save lives.
I am a Breast Cancer Survivor myself and I am very blessed to have survived the big C for almost sixteen years now. For all the girls and ladies who can read this, always have your own self breast examination. There’s nothing better than an Early Detection. But if it wasn’t caught early, don’t loose hope. With all the proper treatments, you can still survive it, just like me. Take care of your health and take care of yourself!
I grabbed this post from Dana & Debbie. Thanks, Fil-Am Journey Couple!
•The first sign of breast cancer usually shows up on a woman’s mammogram before it can be felt or any other symptoms are present.
• Risks for breast cancer include a family history, atypical hyperplasia, delaying pregnancy until after age 30 or never becoming pregnant, early menstruation (before age 12), late menopause (after age 55), current use or use in the last ten years of oral contraceptives, and daily consumption of alcohol.
• Early detection of breast cancer, through monthly breast self-exam and particularly yearly mammography after age 40, offers the best chance for survival.
• Ninety-six percent of women who find and treat breast cancer early will be cancer-free after five years.
• Over eighty percent of breast lumps are not cancerous, but benign such as fibrocystic breast disease.
• You are never too young to develop breast cancer! Breast Self-Exam should begin by the age of twenty.
Resources: American Cancer Society National Cancer Institute Komen Foundation
You can help the lives of many women by spreading the word about The Breast Cancer Site pink button as many times as you can. If The Breast Cancer Site receives 8 million clicks on the pink button in June, their premier sponsor -Bare Necessities- will donate $10,000 for more free mammograms. CLICK the pink button now!
All my e-buddies can grab this tag.
Previous Comments
Thanks, Juliana! Btw, my elder brother suffered the same fate as your father. Sad!
Posted by ailecgee at June 17, 2008, 3:39 pmSad indeed! My father was a smoker so that probably contributed largely to the cancer. He wouldn’t give it up even after the diagnosis. I guess he didn’t see the rational behind stopping since he was only given a few months to live.
Thanks for the visit by the way. I’ll be adding you to my other blogs soon. I don’t get to work on the other one much [like once a month..LOL]. With my Teacher’s Corner, I have this blog in my Non-Bravejournal Blogs. Bravejournal kasi limits non-BJ blog links to 25 so I had to make a link for the other blogs.
Hope your week is going great!
Posted by Juliana at June 18, 2008, 9:32 amTo Juliana: Well, I see his point. Might as well enjoy what’s left to enjoy. Almost exactly like my bro. He stopped smoking but not the drinking. He used to say, “if i stopped drinking, will I get well? I realized then, to each his own.
Okay, just add me there if you have the time. Thanks for the visit. I’ll always be visiting yours, promise!
Posted by ailecgee at June 18, 2008, 5:12 pmThank you for grabbing the tag and we’re so proud of you…
Dana’s dad and brother died of cancer… I think it was colon cancer… Sad…
Anyway, sorry for the late reply…We just got back home after our vacation in IA…
Posted by A Fil-Am JOurney at June 21, 2008, 3:55 amThanks! It is a miracle for me to have survived the big C, considering that it was advanced.
Sorry to hear that Dana’s father and brother were victims of cancer. I guess we all have to be cautious of our health.
Nice to know you’ve been on vacation.
Thanks for the visit and comment, Debbie. Regards to Dana!
16 years….. OMG!!! You are such an Inspiration……
I have breast cancer too….. had my mrm last June 21, 2008…. I still have to undergo chemotherapy…
I’m scared……… please help me on this ……
Thank you and more power!
Posted by mybebe at July 6, 2008, 10:11 amTo mybebe: I understand exactly how you feel now.
Depressed and scared. But try not to be. Breast Ca is not as aggressive as the other types of Ca’s. Besides, available treatments are too far advance nowadays. The chance of surviving it greater than before. So, just keep your faith. God is always with us!
Btw, wait for my e-mail. Still have a lot to share.
hello… 
thank you for the inspiring thoughts you sent via e-mail. appreciate it a lot….
i’m hoping that everything would be fine…. already accepted my breast ca…. and that GOD is in charge …..
God bless us all……
Posted by mybebe0214 at July 11, 2008, 10:52 amHi Beng/Ailecgee/Olive/Beth! Hope I am not disturbing your quiet zone. I have turned to blogs and the internet in the hope to find breast cancer survivors.
I am a breast cancer survivor like you.I am trying to form a dragon boat team composed of breast cancer survivors to represent the Philippines in the Second World Dragon Boat championships for Breast Cancer survivors to be held in USA, 2009. Dragon boat paddling, also known as traditional boat race in the Southeast Asian (SEA) games is the ultimate of team sports. It requires strength, stamina of spirit and more importantly — unity of purpose. I daresay, qualities you can find in a breast cancer survivor.
I am a paddler of the Manila Dragons Dragonboat Rowing team. Since joining the team in 2006, I have regained my physical self and feel stronger than ever. Last 25 April 2008, 13 years to the day I was operated on for Stage 2 infiltrating ductal carcinoma of the breast, I was preparing to compete in an international dragon boat tournament in Boracay. In 2007 alone, I have been to Subic, Punta Fuego, four cities in the Guangdong province of China to compete in
races. And mind you, our team, Manila Dragons, have medals to show for them.
It is my dream to form a dragon boat team composed of breast cancer survivors and race for the courageous Filipinos who gallantly battle the disease and their loved ones who battle the disease with them.
Please respond to this email if you are
interested in joining us.
Thanks,
Tina Cruz
natinsc@gmail.com
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Wow…16 years?? I love hearing about cancer survivors. My father died of lung cancer. It was diagnosed way too late so he only lived a few months after the diagnosis.
I really hope that those who are in the boat you were once in can read this post as it really gives hope.
Posted by Juliana at June 16, 2008, 9:58 pm