The Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure was held in downtown St. Louis yesterday, and an all time record of 65,300 people attended. Saturdays event was a river of pink-clad runners and walkers, many holding balloons and signs that flowed through the five kilometer race. More than 3,500 cancer survivors participated despite sweltering midwest temperatures in the mid 90`s. 2.5 million dollars was raised from the event, which will used for breast cancer research and education. 😎
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Breast Cancer Race For The Cure
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Awesome. thanks for sharing.
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Fantastic!
It`s always a pleasure to hear some good news! I`m glad there were so many who braved the heat to run in this worthy event.Here`s hoping that the money raised can help put an end to this terrible cancer!
It`s always a pleasure to hear some good news! I`m glad there were so many who braved the heat to run in this worthy event.Here`s hoping that the money raised can help put an end to this terrible cancer!
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hmmm..I got a question. We've invested a huge portion of money into curing cancer right? We've advanced by leaps in bounds in technology in the last 20 years alone, right? So...why is there cancer still? What exactly is costing so much money that we need many, many, many races and donations to find a cure? If they can find Trans Fat and created gas out of corn...THEY SHOULD'VE FOUND THE CURE BY NOW!!!
I don't support the research. Not because I don't think cancer can;t be cured or it's not a righteous cause...it just that I feel they are just wasting money.
I don't support the research. Not because I don't think cancer can;t be cured or it's not a righteous cause...it just that I feel they are just wasting money.
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I got an answer!
Actually the research HAS made a big difference; while there is no "cure" per se (no injection that you take and you are sheilded from breast cancer) treatments from the funds have become more technologically precise; those ‘leaps and bounds’ pointed out.
What that translates into for women (and men):
1) ….. More are surviving breast cancer
2) ….. Even when the disease is ultimately terminal those who have it are living longer & not as sick during that time.
3) …..For those who undergo therapy, the treatments are not as intense or invasive as 20 -30 years ago
4) ….. What is learned about breast cancer from the research can in some cases be used or applied in the research of other cancers
5) ..... Earlier detection is preventing the later stages from occuring -this knowledge comes from exploring the disease in an attempt to cure it.
6.).... When folks solicit a donation towards a breast cancer cure, they are not presenting a specific time table to finding that cure, and the people doing the donating are aware of that omission.
7.) …. It makes the ladies think you are sensitive to their needs if you are a guy involved with this cause. Some of us lonely individuals need that extra boost.
Part of the problem in finding a “cure” is that while cancer is generally the same in what it is & that it does, at the cellular level way deep in the DNA , its triggers, the course of the disease, what it responds to, etc. is as diverse as the humans that develops it. That’s the problem with diseases that have genetic factors - your own biology may be working against you & that’s a dang hard thing to create a generic cure-all-people syrum for. Polio was around for centuries before it was cured. These things take time even in the best of technological ages. Combine the genetic issue with the industrialized nation issue. We are no longer being eaten by bears, run over by wagon wheels, or being turned into stone by basilisks; in return for this, we can go 0 to 60 in 2 seconds, store Chinese noodle soup in a tube for months on the space shuttle & pay for it using a computer - and are in taking bizarre chemicals in our water, air, oceans & soil that didn’t exist in large quantities100 years ago. Our bodies haven’t caught up with our science and they are paying the price. Modern medicine having to fight individual genes and a society of industry/convenience, that’s a pretty big order for a bunch of breast-fixated nerds. Gassy corn ain't that difficult a challenge; anything biological can create alchohol (or other fuel such as methane) as it degrades. Disease + 6 billion different possible mutation factors + weird checmical compounds combining in our environment, that's a more twisted pretzel.
When it come to breasts, I knows my stuff. No cure yet, but a leap here… a bound there……. but those Jerry Lewis kids, what’s up with them?
Thanks for this "reminder thread" …… check out my own Race For the Cure thread.
Actually the research HAS made a big difference; while there is no "cure" per se (no injection that you take and you are sheilded from breast cancer) treatments from the funds have become more technologically precise; those ‘leaps and bounds’ pointed out.
What that translates into for women (and men):
1) ….. More are surviving breast cancer
2) ….. Even when the disease is ultimately terminal those who have it are living longer & not as sick during that time.
3) …..For those who undergo therapy, the treatments are not as intense or invasive as 20 -30 years ago
4) ….. What is learned about breast cancer from the research can in some cases be used or applied in the research of other cancers
5) ..... Earlier detection is preventing the later stages from occuring -this knowledge comes from exploring the disease in an attempt to cure it.
6.).... When folks solicit a donation towards a breast cancer cure, they are not presenting a specific time table to finding that cure, and the people doing the donating are aware of that omission.
7.) …. It makes the ladies think you are sensitive to their needs if you are a guy involved with this cause. Some of us lonely individuals need that extra boost.
Part of the problem in finding a “cure” is that while cancer is generally the same in what it is & that it does, at the cellular level way deep in the DNA , its triggers, the course of the disease, what it responds to, etc. is as diverse as the humans that develops it. That’s the problem with diseases that have genetic factors - your own biology may be working against you & that’s a dang hard thing to create a generic cure-all-people syrum for. Polio was around for centuries before it was cured. These things take time even in the best of technological ages. Combine the genetic issue with the industrialized nation issue. We are no longer being eaten by bears, run over by wagon wheels, or being turned into stone by basilisks; in return for this, we can go 0 to 60 in 2 seconds, store Chinese noodle soup in a tube for months on the space shuttle & pay for it using a computer - and are in taking bizarre chemicals in our water, air, oceans & soil that didn’t exist in large quantities100 years ago. Our bodies haven’t caught up with our science and they are paying the price. Modern medicine having to fight individual genes and a society of industry/convenience, that’s a pretty big order for a bunch of breast-fixated nerds. Gassy corn ain't that difficult a challenge; anything biological can create alchohol (or other fuel such as methane) as it degrades. Disease + 6 billion different possible mutation factors + weird checmical compounds combining in our environment, that's a more twisted pretzel.
When it come to breasts, I knows my stuff. No cure yet, but a leap here… a bound there……. but those Jerry Lewis kids, what’s up with them?
Thanks for this "reminder thread" …… check out my own Race For the Cure thread.
