Question by ☆Proud Mom☆: What ideas for breast cancer awareness month do you have?
I am in charge of this project at work. We are raising money for breast cancer awareness month for October. I have a banner coming and some stuff to sell for the cause, but I need unique ideas for the table or display. I was thinking using a pink table clothe and maybe make some pink ribbons out of construction paper to hang up. What are more ideas?? Thanks so much.

Best answer:

Answer by Dave
You could have detailed instructions on how to do a check-up. You could show actual pictures of breast cancer and how it appears (there are color photographs of it taken from a Micron Microscope on line)

You could have a diagram of the stages of breast cancer (different stages)

You could explain the various treatments that breast cancer patients go through. An explainition of chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery.

With that the effects of the treatments themselves.

You can explain that even though ten people are diagnosed wtih breast cancer it would be different for each of those ten. Breast cancer is an individualized disease.

You could list the popular people that have been diagosed with the disease and are doing well now. Christine Applegate and Fran Drescher just two examples.

You can explain that it is rare for somebody under thirty five to have breast cancer, and that it is even rarer (but does happen for men to get it)

A lot of these ideas are on line so you could download it and paste to a board.

I have read a ton of books about breast cancer since my wife was diagnosed with the disease and would use some quotes from some books like the Chicken Soup Series.

With the focus of the President on a National Health Care Plan, I would estimate how much treatment costs the average person diagnosed with the disease.

For example:

We spent about ,000 of our own money fighting the disease. That is some of the deductables and what was NOT covered by our insurance. I estimate going with our records that it cost roughly 0,000 to fight the disease including all the tests and visits including a mastectomy and 27 weeks of chemotherapy and 6.5 weeks of radiation treatments.

Some people that had a cancer diagosis but lost their jobs since their treatment need to go and get an MRI done to make sure it had not returned. But it costs about ,000+ dollars so many are going without and risking cancer returning.

Good luck, I am counting on you to do a great job and you may be saving a life.

Dave

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