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belinda emmett's death from breast cancer this weekend is a tragedy.
it is a tragedy NOT because she was a public figure, and NOT because she was rove mcmanus's wife.
it is a tragedy because she was 32 years old when she died.
and that is way, way, way too young.
56 years old is also way, way, way too young to die.
that's how old my mum was when breast cancer claimed her life last year.
and i'll bet that many of the loved ones of the 7 women killed each day by this most heinous of illnesses will tell you that their mother/sister/friend/lover was way, way, way too young to die.
please donate to breast cancer research.
or perhaps you'd like to donate to alzheimers research
alzheimers being the bastard that killed my father, aged 62.
hell, donate to anything, anything at all.
medical research, anti-hunger networks, humanitarian aid efforts, whatever.
there's a lot of things killing people out there.
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My sister died at 39- leaving two children.
it's an awful disease- cancer in any form.
I'm doing movember this month for men's health- having lost my father to prostate cancer.
damn bastard disease.
regards
thomasr
i'm so sorry to hear that, thr.
may the gods bless your moustache.
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Did I see today that one in eleven women in Australia get breast cancer, and the figure is on the rise? This is bad. Something is very wrong somewhere.
What is sad La nads, is that my grandmother who I never knew died of breast cancer when my mother was 13, fast forward 18 years and my mothers aunt dies of breast cancer, fast forward another 8 years and my aunt died of breast cancer. The sad thing is that in the intervening years of my gran dying and my aunt dying is that we do not seem any closer to a cure for this bastard disease. And by the way it works means that my own sister is a very serious candidate to have to go through it. Instead of the billions we spend on foreign wars maybe an infitessimal amount could be earmarked to try and eradicate this disease once and for all.
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DAVETHSCOT FOR PREZIDENT!
do you want to be my vice?
i ain't nobody's vice.
but i will advise you on important matters.
please think of me as your guru.
I keep thinking of all the money this government has spent on advertising to tell us how great they are but scientists and researchers have to grovel and beg for every cent to continue their work.
We have ovarian cancer through the family and while Mum missed that she copped breast cancer this year.
Right on Jahteh! If you really want to help cure cancer, invest in the technology. There are piles of struggling Australian start-up companies that have great ideas about cancer cures, but fail due to a lack of private funding. Public funding for research is quite good in Australia, but most of the money goes to big public groups that do cancer research (i.e. researching the nature of the cancer, not finding therapeutics that are commercially viable - although I admit the research they do is good). Then you get the big evil bastards like Genentech that screw the scientists, then turn around and screw the patients...
Do your research people, look around for companies that are making potential cancer therapeutics, go and talk to them personally so you can get a gauge of the ethos of the company, and give them some money! And you never know... if the product works you could stand to make a lot.
32 is far too young. it's just so sad and cancer is a bastard of a thing. it's a cunt of a thing.
what is it about the modern world where it's so prevalent now, compared to say 50/100 years ago?
there should be more investigation into reasons why it happens so much now, as well as for cures and treatments.
it might be something as simple as not doing/eating/living in a certain way. which would be cheap or free to address.
Cancer was just as prevalent 50-100 years ago, if you take into account the fact that most people did not live as long as they do now (40-49 years in 1901), and were more likely to die of other things (due to a distinct lack of pharmaceuticals, poor nutrition etc). Cancer is more prevelant in the elderley - 50-100 years ago people were simply not living to that age.
yeah you're right isabelle.
it just sucks full stop.
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