Get It Off Your Chest

Unfortunately, according to my surgeon, the incidence of breast cancer among young women is growing by leaps and bounds. One of the most likely reasons for this increase is exposure to environmental factors. Let us work to find the causes so that we can stop this disease in its tracks before it disfigures more women and turns their lives upside down.

Nancy W.,
July 12, 2006
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My mother was diagnosed in 1988 with breast cancer and after 15 years of remission it has come back in her lungs and thyroid. She is a wonderful mother, volunteer, granmother, wife and matriarch of our family. We can put a man on the moon and spend money finding weapons of "mass destruction", why can't we find a cure for this terrible disease that take people who contribute so greatly to our families and society?

Lisa C., West Palm Beach FL
March 29, 2006
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I am the only one of three sisters who has not been diagnosed with breast cancer, although I am fibrocystic in both breasts. Our elder sister was diagnosed in 1979 and passed in 1989. She was only 42 at the time. A year later, our first cousin died from breast cancer after her second round of treatment. She was only 40. In 1996, our younger sister was diagnosed as well. She lives and is well. Since, 1979, I have been waiting for that "other shoe" to drop, as I was the only one predisposed to the disease. The stress takes its toll. This baby boomer is booming. Can you hear me? Find a cure and let's end the suffering. Not one more sister, daughter, granddaughter, aunt, mother or wife -- or one more brother, son, grandson, uncle, father or husband, for that matter -- needs to be sick or die. Stop this plague now.

Naomi B F., Miami FL
March 27, 2006
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