Something that peeves me off: we have a pretty good idea that having a good diet can help prevent cancer*… so where the hell do companies like Mars and Cadbury get off selling their unhealthy, refined-sugar-laden candy with the marketing pretense that the buyer (eater) is doing something GOOD for the greater health of all? BOOOO!

- Tegan
* I’m saying diet CAN be a factor, and having a healthy diet can sometimes *help* with prevention, not implying we can all avoid it by putting down the Snickers. Sadly, no matter what you do, cancer is unavoidable for some.

Breast Cancer is a huge fear in my family. It is hereditary on my mother’s side. I wish there was more than Breast Cancer Awareness, to where your money for that stuffed bear is going to a fund for BCA, not prevention and not a cure. Awareness.

Unfortunately, my grandma was not one of the survivors. She passed away when I was six. It is still something that hurts me today. You don’t know what cancer is until you’ve cleaned up the black vomit the radiation helped cause. Until you see your grandpa just now having all these side effects from the throat cancer radiation treatments he had 20 years ago. How his intestines and stomach have scartissue lining them from the proceedure.

What hurt me the most in recent times is that my boyfriend’s cousin’s wife (whom my bf is very close with) was diagnosed with Breast Cancer and had a masectomy. She is barely over 30-years-old. She will be having reconstructive surgery, and probably will have some sort of ‘nipple’ tattooed on, but talking to her about this tore me apart.

Thank you for bringing this up, and the best of luck to your mom. I hope she continues to do well.

pink ribbons are pretty, but no BS knowledge is the real power and change.

xoxo.
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