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Rock star in action
Breast cancer survivor Sheryl Crow testified this week before a U.S. House committee supporting the Breast Cancer and Environmental Research Act. The bill would provide $40 million annually for five years for federal research into environmental factors linked to breast cancer. In addition, she supported a companion bill that would require health insurance to pay for at least 48 hours in the hospital after breast cancer treatment allowing full recovery and putting an end to so-called "drive through mastectomies."
Killing more then 41,000 women annually in the U.S., breast cancer is the most common form of cancer after skin cancer.
Sheryl has been a breast cancer research advocate for a while now, and is clearly aware of the connection between cancer and environmental hazards we are all exposed to. Here are few lines from her testimony:
"Why is this bill so important to me? Because I want to know what causes this disease - for me, for the 2.3 million others who share this diagnosis with me, and especially for all those who are at risk, or putting themselves at risk without even knowing it. Like the vast majority of women diagnosed with breast cancer, I have no known risk factor, including no family history. I have no idea why I got breast cancer, or what I can say to others who want to prevent it. Here's what I do know: we need to put more resources into figuring out what the environment has to do with breast cancer. We need to do that through government funding, because there is little financial incentive for anyone else to do this research.
Sheryl Crow is a true rock star!
I hope someone will listen to Cheryl. Celebrities have a voice in our society-no one else does. Please listen to her-breast cancer takes away too many young and old women, and every avenue must be looked at to see why this is happening. Why do some countries have a low instance of it? Could it have its origins in the mouth much like heart and vascular disease and now they are saying even diabetes does. They already discovered the cure for ulcers was a round of antibiotics. It is a bacteria that lives in the gut that creates the problem--not stress. Stress only amplifies the problem. C'mon researchers. How many millions does the Komen foundation have? how about the Avon walk? What's happening with that money. I hope they wont dfiscover that it was a big scam==the Lauder foundation, too. I don't trust non- profits, after a friend told me how they work to make you a millionaire very quickly, if you fill out the right paperwork. We may be scammed, and sitting here like schmucks waiting for the money from these foundations to find a cure. The cure is there, it is simple, it is just that the right people, the people with intuition who think out of the box are not in the research pool. Are they being kept out for a reason? HELP US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!