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[grav_ity]

This is for my aunt and my grandmother...and for everyone else I know who is on the "someday" list. Your area has an organization. Help them if you can.




I have 126 flisters. According to statistics, the chance of developing invasive breast cancer at some time in a woman's life is about 1 in 8. Source. To put that in perspective, that means, assuming all female, there are 16 individuals on my flist that will be affected by breast cancer. How absolutely insane is that? (Note: some of my flisters are male and at least two of them are Knitted, but being affected is being affected)

Have you screened yourself lately? Early detection of breast cancer saves lives. Start your Early Detection Plan today.

→ Every woman should do a self breast exam once a month, about a week after her period ends. Here's information on How to Preform a breast self-exam. About 15% of tumors are felt but cannot be seen by regular mammographic screening.
→ Between the ages of 20 and 39, every woman should have a clinical breast exam every 3 years.
→ After age 40, every woman should have a clinical breast exam done each year.

The earlier that a breast cancer is detected, the more likely it is that treatment can be curable. Mammograms, clinical breast exams, and breast self-exams are key. Regular screening mammograms can decrease the mortality of breast cancer by 30%.

For more information on Breast Cancer, go here. For donations, go here. Or to try walking, go here.

Click to give free mammograms! -- each click creates funding, and costs you nothing!


I have [INSERT NUMBER HERE] flisters. According to statistics, the chance of developing invasive breast cancer at some time in a woman's life is about 1 in 8. <a href=<a href="http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/content/CRI_2_4_1X_What_are_the_key_statistics_for_breast_cancer_5.asp?sitearea=" target="_blank">http://www.cancer.org/<WBR>docroot/CRI/content/CRI_2_4_<WBR>1X_What_are_the_key_<WBR>statistics_for_breast_cancer_<WBR>5.asp?sitearea=</a>>Source</A>. To put that in perspective, that means, assuming all female, there are [INSERT NUMBER HERE] individuals on my flist that will be affected by breast cancer. How absolutely <I>insane</i> is that? Have you screened yourself lately? Early detection of breast cancer saves lives. Start your Early Detection Plan today. → Every woman should do a self breast exam once a month, about a week after her period ends. <a href=<a href="http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/content/CRI_2_6x_How_to_perform_a_breast_self_exam_5.asp?sitearea=" target="_blank">http://www.cancer.org/<WBR>docroot/CRI/content/CRI_2_6x_<WBR>How_to_perform_a_breast_self_<WBR>exam_5.asp?sitearea=</a>>Here's information on How to Preform a breast self-exam</a>. About 15% of tumors are felt but cannot be seen by regular mammographic screening. → Between the ages of 20 and 39, every woman should have a clinical breast exam every 3 years. → After age 40, every woman should have a clinical breast exam done each year. The earlier that a breast cancer is detected, the more likely it is that treatment can be curable. Mammograms, clinical breast exams, and breast self-exams are key. Regular screening mammograms can decrease the mortality of breast cancer by 30%. For more information on Breast Cancer, go <a href= <a href="http://www.oncolink.org/types/article.cfm?c=3&s=5&ss=33&id=8320&p=1" target="_blank">http://www.oncolink.org/types/<WBR>article.cfm?c=3&s=5&ss=33&id=<WBR>8320&p=1</a>>here</a>. For donations, go <a href=<a href="http://www.thebreastcancersite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=2" target="_blank">http://www.<WBR>thebreastcancersite.com/<WBR>clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=<WBR>2</a>>here</A>. Or to try walking, go <a href=<a href="http://walk.avonfoundation.org/site/PageServer?pagename=walk_homepage" target="_blank">http://walk.<WBR>avonfoundation.org/site/<WBR>PageServer?pagename=walk_<WBR>homepage</a>>here</A>. Click to give free mammograms! -- each click creates funding, and costs you nothing! <a href="<a href="http://www.thebreastcancersite.com" target="_blank">http://www.<WBR>thebreastcancersite.com</a>"><img src="<a href="http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b349/evilfuzzymonster/0x98fc353841265a7bc0a80a36.gif" target="_blank">http://i22.photobucket.<WBR>com/albums/b349/<WBR>evilfuzzymonster/<WBR>0x98fc353841265a7bc0a80a36.gif</a><WBR>"></a> <small>Originated by <lj site="livejournal.com" user="ed_84"></small>

Originated by ed_84
Canadian Cancer Society
Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation
Rethink Breast Cancer (site targeted at "young" people)

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[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

A good portion of my f-list is, so I figured it couldn't hurt. Rethink is the one my family is currently the most involved in.

[irony-rocks.livejournal.com]

Oh, yay! Extra links! Oh, btw, what happened to your cut/paste thingie? Did it drop off? Crap. This coding is actually tricky, because it textarea inside of a text area, and I don't know how it works.

Anyway, could you add the cut/past part?

I have [INSERT NUMBER HERE] flisters. According to statistics, the chance of developing invasive breast cancer at some time in a woman's life is about 1 in 8. <a href=http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/content/CRI_2_4_1X_What_are_the_key_statistics_for_breast_cancer_5.asp?sitearea=>Source</A>. To put that in perspective, that means, assuming all female, there are [INSERT NUMBER HERE] individuals on my flist that will be affected by breast cancer. How absolutely <I>insane</i> is that? Have you screened yourself lately? Early detection of breast cancer saves lives. Start your Early Detection Plan today. → Every woman should do a self breast exam once a month, about a week after her period ends. <a href=http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/content/CRI_2_6x_How_to_perform_a_breast_self_exam_5.asp?sitearea=>Here's information on How to Preform a breast self-exam</a>. About 15% of tumors are felt but cannot be seen by regular mammographic screening. → Between the ages of 20 and 39, every woman should have a clinical breast exam every 3 years. → After age 40, every woman should have a clinical breast exam done each year. The earlier that a breast cancer is detected, the more likely it is that treatment can be curable. Mammograms, clinical breast exams, and breast self-exams are key. Regular screening mammograms can decrease the mortality of breast cancer by 30%. For more information on Breast Cancer, go <a href= http://www.oncolink.org/types/article.cfm?c=3&s=5&ss=33&id=8320&p=1>here</a>. For donations, go <a href=http://www.thebreastcancersite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=2>here</A>. Or to try walking, go <a href=http://walk.avonfoundation.org/site/PageServer?pagename=walk_homepage>here</A>. Click to give free mammograms! -- each click creates funding, and costs you nothing! <a href="http://www.thebreastcancersite.com"><img src="http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b349/evilfuzzymonster/0x98fc353841265a7bc0a80a36.gif"></a> <small>Originated by <lj site="livejournal.com" user="ed_84"></small>

Just bracket it in <*texarea><*/textarea>

[ed-84.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there's this weird drop off effect. I think the third time this thing is copied, the additional "textarea" box isn't there, so that gets dropped off. I have no idea how to fix it, without endlessly adding on a bagillion textarea boxes in the field.

[irony-rocks.livejournal.com]

I'm confused by that.

[ed-84.livejournal.com]

Honestly? So am I.

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

Dude, I totally started to read it, realized that my chances of fixing the code were actually lessened if I kept reading it, fixed the code, and still only sort of get what she's talking about. ;)

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I am not sure what happened. The first time I tried it didn't work at all and the second time the box was missing and then I got kicked off the computer and here I am to fix it!

[ed-84.livejournal.com]

Whoa. My code broke your journal!

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

Oh, my mother kicked me off the computer. It happens all the time. One of the downsides of living at home for free...

[archae-ology.livejournal.com]

I've actually been thinking about going in and asking my doctor to book me an appointment for a mammogram. I have utterly no family history of it (we go for the lung cancer, and the very, very rare forms of bone cancer), but my personal medical background says that it is something that could happen, and thus I need to keep an eye on things. Not to mention I'm already a patient at the Durham regional cancer centre thanks to my white blood cell count. Need to go for another appointment sometime soon, make sure it's not spiking too high.

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

I haven't really done anything other than self-exams. Although I guess there was a breast exam when I got my birth control prescription. My family doesn't have a lot of history, my grandmother's cancer was in her liver, but still...1 in 8 is a really scary number.

[ed-84.livejournal.com]

Dude, get the examination anyway. Family history only goes so far. There's always the first in the family, and in 1960, the average rate of breast cancer was 1 in 20. Now it's 1 in 8! That tells you something.

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

Well I had one in 2007, when I went for the birth control, so at the end of the summer I am due again.

[ed-84.livejournal.com]

Ah, then. Excellent.

[6beforelunch.livejournal.com]

My midwife got on me about monthly exams at my well-woman appointment. I have so far not been good about it, but after this month's period, I really should.

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

I do the self check (my family is also hyper-vigilant about moles, because we all have them and we're all really fair and sun burns waiting to happen) every month, but I haven't been to the doctor in two years or so.

[colej55.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting this important reminder! I clicked in memory of my beautiful and beloved cousin, Eleanor. Your post also reminded me to schedule my mammogram. Thanks!