Wednesday October 14, 2009, 3:26 pm
PLEASE TAKE THIS PLEDGE!!

As I sat before the subcommittee members, I couldn't help but think about all the stories from cancer patients and survivors I've heard over the years – I wanted their voices to be heard!

I did my very best to impress upon the subcommittee the importance of these reforms.

But to truly drive the message home, our elected representatives need to hear the same message from you – the people they were elected to represent!

Help back up my testimony by telling your members of Congress that health care reform must include patient protections that will help cancer patients and survivors.

During my testimony, I emphasized the harsh realities cancer patients and survivors face when navigating our health care system and outlined exactly what was needed to help them:

Ensure access to affordable, high-quality insurance for all, including those with preexisting conditions;
Protect cancer patients from excessive out-of-pocket costs; and
Improve access to early detection services.
We've made great progress in the fight against cancer. As we observe the 25th anniversary of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we should celebrate the new discoveries, better screening and enhanced awareness that are turning millions of cancer patients into cancer survivors. Yet, we should remember the challenges that still lie before us – and the need for everyone to speak up and help make a difference.

Please, show your support for including valuable patient protections in the health reform bills by signing our petition urging Congress to "consider cancer" in health reform.

Wednesday October 14, 2009, 11:32 pm
This is so very important. My Mother had breast cancer 2 different times so the doctors consider me high risk. I go for the "ow, ow, ow," mamogram every year. It is not a fun thing to go through but I feel breast cancer would be really a lot worse!

Thursday October 15, 2009, 6:10 am
My best friend died of breast cancer 2 years ago. She was 62 and so full of life and joy. There is something about people who have or have gotten cancer they are so strong and brave it is admirable yet so sad.
Thanks Kat

Thursday October 15, 2009, 7:38 am


equal RIGHTS TO THE FEMALE POPULATION.
=

HUMAN RIGHTS FOR WOMEN.
=

ALOT OF WOMEN, AND MEN ALIKE
SAY
STRANGE THAT BREAST CANCER IS SO PREVALENT ONLY IN CERTAIN NATIONS
LIKE THE USA
ODD.
STRANGE THAT OTHER WOMEN CANCERS SO PREVALENT ONLY IN CERTAIN ONES.
ODD.
VERY NOT RIGHT.

STRANGE, SO VERY NOT MAKING SENSE
THAT MALES DO NOT ENDURE CANCERS ON THE LEVELS WOMEN DO.
SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE THAT IT WOULD NOT BE THE SAME.
AND HAVE BEEN THE SAME ALL ALONG.

WOMEN ACTUALLY ARE BETTER PROVIDERS OF HEALTH THAN ARE MALES.
AFTER ALL... ANOTHER FACT.

AND MANY SAY IT
THE USA USED BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS ON THE INDIANS
TOOK WHAT IT WANTED
THEIR DIGNITY
THEIR LANDS
THEIR SECURITY
THEIR HEALTH
THEIR LIVES

THE USA HAS CERTAINLY AN ODDITY ABOUT ITSELF
SURE DOES NOT WANT = HEALTH
SURE DOES NOT CARE TO PROVIDE = EDUCATION
ESPECIALLY TOWARD WOMEN. YES INDEED. FACT AFTER FACT.

MANY OF us QUESTON TAINTED USA PHARMACEUDICALS
POISONED
PURPOSE POISONS
DISHED OUT TO USA CITIZENS

LETS ALL BE HONEST... USA CITIZENS SAY IT EVERY DAY.
AS DO NATIONS OF PEOPLE ABOUT THE USA.

AND IT IS CLEAR IT CERTAINLY HAS TAKEN PLACE IN THE PAST!!!
USA PHARMACEUDICALS GUILTY OF TAINTING AND POISONING us THE PEOPLE!!!

AND PEOPLE SAY IT:
THERE WOULD NOT BE BREAST CANCER
THERE WOULD NOT BE CERVICAL CANCER
THERE WOULD NOT BE OTHER CANCERS IN WOMEN IN THE MINORS
IF SOMETHING ELSE WAS NOT THE CULPRIT!!!
AND
THERE ARE CERTAINLY BILLIONS WHO DO NOT "buy the sells routine"
THAT THOSE CANCERS ARE WHY FROM ... WHATEVER IS BEING TOOTED THAT DAY.
THAT HOUR.
AS WOMEN ANGUISH.
AS WOMEN SUFFER IN GREAT PERILS.
AND SMELLS LIKE MURDER TO MANY USA CITIZENS.
AND TO NATIONS OF PEOPLE ACROSS THE ENTIRITY OF OUR MOTHER EARTH.

"OH WOW, LOOK ge JUST SAID WHAT MOST OF us THINK!!"

CANCER IS NOT ACCEPTABLE.
IS NOT!

THE USA SHOULD MAKE ITS WAR ON TERRORISM
ALONG WITH THAT TOTALITY OF NEEDED DESERVED PROTECTION TO WOMEN
FROM THE heterosexual PREDATORY males OF THE USA
TO KEEP THE FEMALE LIVES FROM THE TERRORISM OF RAPE AND OTHER VIOLENCE
THOSE DISGUSTING EXCUSE FOR USA Men COMMIT!!!

MAKE IT A WAR ON CANCER AFFLICTING WOMEN!

A REAL WAR!!!

FIND THE REAL CAUSE OF THESE "cancers"!

WHEN SO MANY PEOPLE... AND BY BILLIONS...
ARE SAYING IT... AND BTW THEY WILL NEVER BE SILENCED...
WON't HAPPEN...
SAYING
ARE USA PHARMACEUDICAL COMPANIES POISONING USA FEMALE POPULATION
AND
THE OTHER NATIONS TOO???

!!!


GET ON THE WAR ON TERRORISM USA.

WE ALL WANT YOU TO DO THAT.


AND WE REALLY DO BELIEVE IT THAT WE ARE BEING VICTIMIZED
BY PHARMACEUDICAL POISOINS PURPOSEDLY MANUFACTURED IN THE USA BY USA company
FOR EXACTLY THAT PURPOSE

AFTER ALL
SAY THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE IN THE USA

SURE IS HOW MANY $$$TRILLIONS IN KEEPIN WOMEN IN CANCER?


WHEREAS...
NO CANCER...WELL CERTAINLY NOT $TRILLIONS FROM THE SUFFERING!



PEOPLE... LET us BE HONEST!
SAY IT.
SHOUT IT FROM THE MOUNTAIN TOPS.
SEND IT IN PETITIONS.
SHOVE IT INTO LETTERS.
DEMAND THE CHANGES AND SECURE YOUR VOICES.

SAY WHAT YOU SAY TO ONE ANOTHER.
BREAK THE SILENCE AND THE SENSE OF BEING FURTHER VICTIMIZED
"BIG BROTHER" IF IS THERE...WON't BE GONE BY YOUR "FEARS" IT WANTS THERE.
AND ALOT OF YOU
SAY THE USA IS "BIG BROTHER" IN ITS TREACEHRY.

ME... I SAY LET's HAVE A NEW ERA!!!
100% = WOMEN
100% = HEALTH

NO OPTIONS.
NONE.

namaste MS L.E.P.! YOUR ACRONYM???

GOD LOVE us WOMEN EVERY ONE... AND REAL MEN AMONG us TOO.
DEMAND YOUR EQUALITY PEOPLE.
DEMAND YOUR REPSECT AND SECURE YOUR GOOD NAME.

HUMAN RIGHTS.

Thursday October 15, 2009, 7:47 am


reportedly

The total cost of illness for breast cancer
has been estimated at $3.8 billion,

of which $1.8 billion represents medical care.

Since treatment costs
are considerably lower
when a tumor is discovered at an early stage,
screening programs have economic value.

Breast examination can be performed by the woman herself
or by a health care professional. Screening can be accomplished
by self-examination or by a health care provider,
and by mammography, a process of taking x-rays of the breasts,
usually one from the side and one from above.

Mass screening using mammography
can improve early detection by 15 to 35 percent.

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go ON AND READ MORE...
READ HERE/THERE
THE $$$ EARNED FROM CANCER AFFLICTING ESPECIALLY THE LIVES OF FEMALES.

YOU DO OWE IT TO YOURSELF... TO ANY WOMAN/FEMALE LIFE YOU CARE ABOUT
TO KNOW
TO FIND OUT
TO REALIZE THE TRUTH OF IT ALL!
AND TO END THIS MENACE, THIS TORTURE OF THE FEMALE.
FOREVER BAN IT!!!

ISN'T IT SOMETHING THOUGH?
THE BILLIONS $$$ UPON $$$ BILLION IN THAT "gain"
FOR WOMEN VICTIMIZED LIKE THIS.

GOLLY.

AND TO THINK TO OF THOSE COMPLICATING FACTORS
AND THAT ANOTHER LARGE
$$$
HOW MANY MORE BILLIONS???

AND THAN THE OTHER BILLIONS $$$ FOR THE PROBLEMS ARISING
FROM THE SO CALLED "MEDICAL TREATMENTS"
THAT HAVE CRIPPLED AND NOT CURED ANYTHING!

THE "SIDE EFFECT" DILEMNAS AND PERILS... COSTING MORE $$$ BILLIONS!

GO READ. GO STUDY.
TAKE THE INITIATIVE.

THIS IS YOUR LIFE...THE ONLY ONE YOU GOT.
LOVE TO HEAR IT THAT YOU ARE LABORING FOR ACTUAL TOTAL TRUTH.
BILLIONS OF us ARE...AND WE WILL FIND IT.
AND WILL DISCLOSE ANY TREACHERY BY WHATSOEVER COMPANY
ANY AND ALL BY WHATSOEVER GOVERNRMENT WHOEVERS
ETC

TRUTH...ALWAYS WINS
LIKE LOVE.

Thursday October 15, 2009, 7:58 am
keep IN MIND THIS ONE___ 2001 PEOPLE!
WHAT KIND OF $$$ DOES VICTIMS OF CANCER BRING IN TO "WHERE"!!!
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=12678566&dopt=AbstractPlus

For all cancers,
the total economic burden of this disease worldwide
was projected by the authors to be in the range of
$US 300-400 billion in 2001
(about $US 100-140 billion as direct costs
and the remainder as indirect costs [morbidity and mortality]).

According to the National Institute of Health (NIH),
the total cost of cancer was estimated
at $US 156.7 billion in 2001 in US
($US 56.4 billion as direct costs,
$US 15.6 as indirect morbidity costs,
and $US 84.7 billion as indirect mortality costs).


Based on limited information,
in the US, breast cancer
can be projected to account for about one-fifth/one-fourth
of the total cost of cancer.

Breast cancer treatment costs are higher in the US
than in other developed countries.




Both direct and indirect costs
are dependent on disease stage.

The per-patient costs for initial care in 1992
were estimated at $US 10 813, f
or continuing care at $US 1084 and for terminal care at $US 17 886.

Stage-specific costs provide information for cost-effectiveness analyses
of cancer-control initiatives, such as screening programmes.

Economic studies on breast cancer are heterogeneous,
and the cost estimates made are not easily generalisable.

The cost of treatment for breast cancer in developing countries
is < or =5% of that in developed regions.


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WOMEN...CARE ABOUT WHAT IS TRULY THIS "CANCER"!

HOW HAS IT COME INTO EXISTENCE?
WHY IS IT THAT IN THE YEAR 2009... NO CURE???
NONE!

ONLY MORE HYPE... MORE HOAX... MORE SUFFERING BY FEMALES... !!!

ALOT OF MONEY... GOING SOMEWHERE $$$
AND LIVES OF THE FEMALE POPULATION

BTW
THE SAME LIVES THAT THE USA
FOR ONE
DOES NOT PROTECT AGAINST THE CRIMINAL heterosexual male ELEMENT!
AS VICTIM AFTER VICTIM OF RAPE CONTINUES TO CRY OUT!
AND THE TARGETED VICTIMS CRYING OUT ARE THE FEMALES AMONG us.

WHY AREN't THE heterosexual male USA PREDATORS CHASED DOWN?
LIKE A WAR ON TERRORISTS!
IS TERRORISM TO RAPE!!!

JUST A THOUGHT I WOULD ASK YOU LADIES TO THINK ON.

IT IS OWED TO us WOMEN... TO OUR LOVED ONES
"NO TOLERANCE OF RAPE! NO TOLERANCE OF RAPISTS!!!"
PROTECT THE VICTIMS.
BTW THE VICTIMS ARE PREDOMINANTLY THE FEMALE PEOPLE WOMEN!!!

*sighs*

TRUTH...ALWAYS WINS.
LIKE LOVE.

Thursday October 15, 2009, 9:55 am
noted & signed

Thursday October 15, 2009, 6:18 pm
Did you happen to tell Congress about your cozy relationship with Astra-Zeneca, or the stock your foundation owns in pharmaceutical companies or GE, the world's largest manufacturer of mammogram machines? Did you explain why you continue to ignore toxins and environmental factors and continue to promote screeings and mammograms as the best way to beat cancer? Or why your foundation continues to support research into the same tried and failed methods of surgery, chemo and radiation - which do nothing to address the root causes and seldom completely eliminate cancer and keep it at bay for a normal lifespan?

October should be called Breast Cancer Deception Month, given the cozy relationships between the foundations and charities and those who not only profit from cancer but also those who contribute to causing it.. How about more emphasis on the relationship of environmental toxins and looking outside the mainstream box of surgery, chemo and radiation that has largely failed us for 4 decades since the War on Cancer was declared? And how about a little honesty about who actually started Breast Cancer Awareness Month and how it has misdirected people away from true prevention while covering for the profiteers and villians?

For a revealing look at what Breast Cancer Awareness is really about, see: 'Breast Cancer Deception Month – Hiding the Truth beneath a Sea of Pink' (http://www.tbyil.com/breast-cancer-deception.htm)

Friday October 16, 2009, 2:27 am
Pledge Taken. thank you Peace.

Friday October 16, 2009, 5:52 am
Hmmmm, obviously you're a man, and don't have boobies, Tony....and I truly resent your comments, as I have a sister in Stage 4 cancer and she, as well as millions of other women, DO benefit from whatever advances are made in fighting for the cause. If only you could tie a scarf around your head for a few days, I don't think you'd be typing what you just did....(nor would your mother, wife, sister, daughter, nieces....etc.)

Friday October 16, 2009, 7:35 am
Peace Love Earth, I suggest you read the article I referred to before jumping to conclusions.

Yes, I am a man and no I do not have boobies (although as a man, I do admit to a certain affinity for them). As it so happens, I am also a natural health author, advocate and researcher. Besides being the forum moderator for Cancer Alternatives at CureZone, I also host a Yahoo group (oleandersoup) centered around cancer that has over 1600 members and has been around over 5 years now. A great many of those members do indeed have boobies.

FYI, the natural anti-cancer protocol I recommend has been well over 90% successful and that includes over 80% successful for people with stage 3 and stage 4 cancers after mainstream medicine and all of its so-called advances have failed them.

I beliieve very much in the cause. I just find it abhorrent the way that so many major players have used the cause to profit from cancer while covering up their roles in causing it. Again, read the article!

Friday October 16, 2009, 12:55 pm
Mammograms squeeze the breasts so much that it potentially can harm the cells. I know it because after my baseline mammogram my breasts hurt for weeks, and I couldn't sleep for a couple of nights. That plus the effect of the x-ray radiation, is a double reason to stay away from this deceptive method.
Thermography or thermal imaging (infrared imaging) is a much safer, accurate, and painless method. Cancer cells give off more heat, therefore it's easy to "see" what area/s of the body are should be looked into.
People, in general, accept too easily what the so-called experts tell them to do, without educating themselves and taking responsibility for their health.

Friday October 16, 2009, 11:40 pm
Tony, I'm so sorry...and I don't want this to sound insulting, because it's being commented about with respect to your profession, BUT...not a thing you said do I believe. I have nothing at all to do with doctors OR pharmacy ompanies, but I do not believe in natural anti-cancer protocol either. I guess if I had it, I might think twice, but I will remain a "doubting Thomasina" until then.

Thanks for jumping in about your thoughts....and I certainly welcome ALL opinions here. Besides, who wants to watch yourself type all day? :)

Friday October 16, 2009, 11:44 pm
Ms. R.S. I understand what you are saying, and I truly sympathize with any pain you may have had. I have never had any of the discomfort even some of my sisters say they have had. It's nothing compared to childbirth (C-secion for me), or a PAP smear, so I gladly suggest it for safety's sake.

I'm not sure about most women, but there are very few health insurance companies that will pay for thermography or thermal imaging UNLESS they see something unusual in your mammogram. Of course, you can pay for it yourself, but in a recession with the highest people laid off in 26 yrs., I'm thinking those $$$$'s are never spent on the "mom" or her boobies. Sad, but true.....