All
throughout October 2014, DreamTeamNetwork will be posting a succession of blogs
on breast cancer awareness, research and more news in support of the National
Breast Cancer Awareness Month campaign. We are proud to show our continued
support for this compassionate, laudable cause and hope you will too!
This
year, we have been shining the light on a different kind of breast cancer
awareness—a message more appropriate to today. Today’s message of awareness
might adapt and shift focus in a number of different directions, including:
Emphasizing
Unmet Needs
People
with metastatic breast cancer are living an incredibly difficult existence with
a long-term diagnosis. They go about their lives with an incurable condition,
receiving treatment until death.
Pointing
to Critical Areas for Research
Certain
crucial areas to be researched include:
• Breast cancer’s causes – The more
that is known about the causes of breast cancer, the more the cancer might be
prevented;
• Metastases – The more is known about
why secondary malignant growths develop at a distance from a primary site of
cancer, the more these too might be prevented or better managed, if and/or when
they arise;
• Better, more effective and less
harmful treatments for all molecular subtypes of the disease; and
• Improvements in diagnostics or
pathology so that patients with minimal or slow tumors can safely avoid
overtreatment.
Stressing
That Patients Have Options
Patients
should be informed of all of their options and given room to ask questions of
their physicians. The best medical care happens when patients are educated
about their condition and care options, can enter the doctor’s office or clinic
with a reasonable understanding of their condition and choices, and share in
decisions about their care.
Recognizing
That the World is Disease-ridden
Awareness
is important but it also demands perspective, including the fact that breast
cancer is one of many illnesses from which all kinds of people suffer and some
die. There is no severity or merit contest for cancer. Each person in each
situation deserves good medical care provided with respect and access to the
necessary medication.
To
take action and make a difference, consider supporting National Breast Cancer
Foundation (www.nationalbreastcancer.org) or one of the many other
organizations fighting against this deadly cancer.
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