I Vote for the Cure!

I also signed the petition.  Let's keep this bumped up for all to sign and email to friends and family.

Opps! Hit it twice. Sorry. T.

I signed.

Signed and passed on.

Thank you

All three of teh front-running Democratic candidates have been directly affected by breast cancer: Edwards' wife, of course; Obama's mother died of bc and Hillary's mother-in-law died of bc.

Obama's Mom died of ovarian cancer at age 54. 

ETA:  Laura Bush's mother was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 78 and is still alive.

I Vote for the Cure -- I signed the petition and passed it on



I Vote for the group of individuals who understand

--that comprehensive public health policies support a healthy society

--that budgets of main street are deeply affected by budgets of Capitol Hill http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf05322/

--that medicine is both ART and SCIENCE

--that to create polarized debate is pathologic

--that government on all levels is suppose to be for and by the people

--that top-down, ethical corporate governance is a sustainable energy

--that Non Profit Organizations are more than just an accounting term

--that lawyers can not be utilized as money changers for opportunists, i.e. malpractice

--that the US of A Judicial system and Supreme Court are precious resources

--that irresponsible environmental decisions kill

--that environmental decisions, planet and personal, come before shareholder profit needs

--that disease crosses borders and so shared research must follow

--that limited resources are real and false promises create more pain not less

--that lies kill hope

--that ethics can coexist with progress

--that pointing fingers waste precious time and energy and accomplish only self interests.

--that self interests kill hope

--that it is not healthy, wealthy or wise to S*&T in our own house and track the dirt to someone else’s home

--that the design of the balance of power in the US Constitution was gen-ius and requires more gene research

--that to live without hope is not an option



This list is not intended to be comprehensive.

Best wishes to all...as always

Tender, you are so right my BC sister...the time is now.

In the Year 2008, imho, Breast Cancer monies should race to finalize the Genomics and Proteomics of breast cancer, and then each patient's tumor should be analyzed, even in retrospect, and submitted to a centralized data bank with their personal number. The NIH/NCI should take over supervision of a UNIFIED APPROACH, based on this data, of dedicated research to chemotherapy's, hormones, biologics, immunologics against these cancers.

We are too spread out in our research. We need a UNIFIED approach, less haphazard (albeit all with good intent), a retrofitting to form an ARMY OF RESEARCHERS AND CLINICIANS AGAINST BREAST CANCER AND ALL CANCERS. We may need a MANHATTAN CANCER PROJECT to win this war.

WE NEED A CANCER ARMY

I voted for this, and then got an email asking me to picket the debates last night. I live only 2 miles from St Anselm's College, so how could I refuse.

We all met up at a local restaurant and carpooled to the college.

We were a small group of about 20, and they put us between the "stop global warming" and "Mike Huckabee" groups. Each of these groups had about 200 people each. A few media took our pictures, and a radio station interviewed one of the ladies. We yelled"vote for a cure!" whenever the other 2 groups next to us stopped their chanting. Nobody in our group had ever picketed anything before. We were out there from 4:30 till 7pm (my daughter and I left early a 6, we were freezing, it was about 30 degrees, and we were standing on snow and ice). The rest of the group was going back to the restaurant for dinner.

We saw a few of the candidates buses, and some real nuts all costumed up. It was crazy with all the people!

I don't know if I would ever do it again! I just hope someone heard our cause, so that every woman is able to get the mammograms and treatment she needs, no matter if she has insurance or not.

Lynne

Your welcome Marin. You're right everyone should do everything they can because many are just too ill to.

Lynne