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interesting question.......

crystalbay
crystalbay CSN Member Posts: 38
edited March 2014 in Esophageal Cancer #1
I've wondered for years how it is that breast cancer - far less deadly and less common than esophageal cancer - gets 25 times the research, press, attention, etc. I'm sure this is true of several other types of cancer, too.
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  • zinniemay
    zinniemay CSN Member Posts: 522
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    Breast cancer
    I am willing to bet almost everyone on these boards knows,or has a wife, mother , sister , daughter , who has died from Breast cancer or who has had it. Esophageal Cancer. they almost always assume that people who get this are smokers. not true, My husband never smoked a day in his life, don't drank. I have a rare birth defect that caused me to have my left foot and part of my leg removed my left side from the breast down is twice the size of my right called H.H.M.L. . Why would they use money one a handful of people like me? When they can try to cure M.S. I understand that to find a cure for what will serve the marjority is more important then a few. In doing that maybe they will find a cure for me. It is always possible!
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