Thursday, October 01, 2015

UGH, Pinktober cannot end soon enough

Hear me out: It's October 1st and soon (if not already) we will be flooded in a sea of Pink. I used to be behind this 100% until I learned what it meant to live with an incurable breast cancer. I don't wanna see pink and I will not donate to pink. All PINK does is line the pockets of the companies who produce the pink products. ONLY 7% of the money raised for Breast Cancer goes to Metastatic or Stage 4 Cancer. THAT'S IT! And you wonder why there isn't a cure? PEOPLE, THAT LEAVES a whopping 93% of funds that are going to AWARENESS & large salaries. Raise your hand, who here DOESN'T know anything about Breast Cancer? Early detection does not save lives. It sure as hell didn't save mine. Its time to see a major shift in the strategy of SGK and other Breast Cancer orgs who claim they are desperate for a cure. Susie Komen obviously died of MBC so what gives? 
Every day in October I'm going to post another fact about MBC and I am going to educate anyone (including people who have had or are in remission) who would like to learn about the cancer that will eventually take my life and another 40,000 Men & Women each year. That's 108 people each DAY who will die from Stage 4 Metastatic Breast Cancer. The following facts are shared from mbcn.org
October 1. Fact 1.
1. What is Metastatic Breast Cancer? (pronounced as Met-a-STA-tic)
MBC also known as Stage IV is cancer that has spread outside of the breast to other organs such as bones, liver, lung or brain. This process is called metastasis.(pronounced as Me-TAS-ta-sis)

#MetastaticBreastCancerMonth #Stage4NeedsMore #PinkribbonsDontSaveLives

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