Yes, breast cancer awareness month...one of my least favorite awareness months. I really can't stand all the "race for the cure" and similar fundraisers that are common during this time of the year.
My maternal grandma had breast cancer. It disappeared by having chemo and having a partial mastectomy, not by walking and/or running. Her big sis had it, too but in her case it also spread to other parts of her body...and died at age 82 battling bone cancer (she looked identical to Rosa from "Orange is the New Black" when she died). Did any of those silly fundraisers helped her? No. What helped her have a better quality of life? Getting medical attention from an oncologist.
Let's learn the moral of this story: cancer, due to its nature (a mutation of cells caused by different forms of radiation) cannot be "cured" in the same sense bacterial infections can be cured nor it can go away the same way most virus can. So, no amount of pink ribbons and pink pens will cure breast cancer. Why? Most money raised from those fundraisers go into the pockets of the CEOs and companies promoting those events, very little goes into scientific research.




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