Take the Fright Out of Breast Cancer™

Ok - leave to the bloke to get to the point 😉

I guess I am glad that breast cancer awareness month isn't in November. Or we could be looking at well developed turkey breasts, with nipples perhaps.

you ARE joking, aren’t you?🤦♀️

Traveltext, you are baaadddd to the bone! LO

Back to the "cure" commentary. I would argue that I have been treated successfully (to date) with no evidence of disease. I will not say I am "cured."

To me and most people I know a "cure" means it's going to fix the problem without residual disease symptoms for anyone who gets that disease and corresponding treatment.

There is no cure for cancer, only treatments based upon the cancer/tumor's location, size, characteristics and ability of the patient to tolerate said treatment. We don't fail treatment- the current treatments fail us.

Do I fear cancer? Yes. Will there ever be a day when I won't? I don't think so. I have experienced some of the darkest days because of cancer and treatments- and I fear ever having to do that again. There will never be 'taking fear out of cancer' for me until there truly is a cure and we fully understand how it happens to healthy young people to begin with- when they have no family connection or gene mutation.

Think of that historical fear quote, but replace one of the "fear" with cancer. "The only thing we have to fear is cancer itself." Find me a sane person who disagrees with that.

I have been posting and watching this thread with interest.

I am amazed by how difficult it is to shift something once a path/plan is perceived to be established - life is not like that at all.

The most successful people and enteprizes, not to mention nature itself, have flexibility as part of their resilience. They know when to stop, change direction, dump the plan, fight for the plan, they are in constant motion/ "processing" if you like.

It's vital for breast cancer treatment - no path or treatment is completely set in stone/predetermined (apart maybe from surgery).

Starting a treatment does not mean you have to finish it exactly the way you planned when you started.

In fact persisting with something that does more harm then good is wasteful of life and opportunity.

Being able to learn and adapt is essential for survival.

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Searing analysis of this illconceived BCO campaign here:

http://nancyspoint.com/take-fright-breast-cancer-s...

On the local news today in honor of Pinktober, 63 will be dx’d this week in your area this weekand ____ will die. It caught me by surprise so I didn’t catch the second number. It’s like a BC factory. My area eh? And what does that encompass? The county, I suppose? Has anyone figured out that this BCOcampaign will be dragged out until Nov. 1 and nothing has changed except the wording?

NO

ahhh... this is a simple thing to fix - someone came up with this and possibly that someone does not have breast cancer and/or had given it sufficient thought

I know money went into the proposed campaign but I really don't see how it will be successful - where donation targets defined?? It is doing well so far??

At the risk of sounding crude - come on - best thing to bring to your Halloween party your one breasted, chemo bold, bone metastasis ridden friend.
That sounds insensitive?? - IT IS!

Lisey, I respect your point of view but, I have to say, there's a hell of a lot of people overthinking this issue here and on social media.

Maybe we could open up a new thread soon, where creative thinking people could come up with some ideas for a fund raising event, and then somehow we could tabulate the votes, and BCO could do that idea? Would that make more people happy? Runs and walks are none too fresh ideas. And I think that is part of what Lisey is saying. Make it fun and they will come. Can we do this? It would be a more democratic process, and we do have some seriously great minds gathered here at BCO. It could become an annual thing itself, a new fundraising theme every year.

I just do think that anyone trying to raise money for anything having to do with breast cancer in this month,(altho somehow, it seems to be the month we were given. is going to have a hard time competing with Halloween/Samhain/All Souls/ El dios de Los Muertes. It is the unofficial beginning of the social season for the moneyed set. EVERYBODY loves cosplay, and the idea of being generous.

Lisey,


No one is overthinking this.


It's a bad idea - and a lazy one at that.


It is going to fail and no one will be held responsible for it because the projected figures will be modest.


It is very sad to have lost a great opportunity.


And I repeat myself - the techniques you are describing are outdated - 80s....😊

Lisey, I don't think we are "overthinking" this campaign, per se. I know it was a gut feeling of disgust for me the minute I heard it. I don't know about you, but I got several e-mails announcing this campaign and was offended by the crassness of the whole concept. I find an organization such as BCO has lost its sensitivity on the subject and putting it out there to its community in this manner makes it look like they have lost touch with the community they say they are helping. When so many women and men have to deal with the side effects of treatment, turning breast cancer into a "party atmosphere" is a slap in the face.