Join the Army of Women today
Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 09:07 
Join the Movement to go Beyond a Cure!
The Love/Avon Army of Women offers a revolutionary new opportunity for YOU to partner with research scientists to move us beyond a cure.
Breast cancer has been around for decades, but it does not have to be our future. We can be the generation that eliminates breast cancer by identifying what causes this disease and stopping it before it starts. This is your chance to be part of the research that will end breast cancer. Sign up for your sister, mother, daughter, granddaughter, best friend, and the woman you met last week.
Help us eradicate breast cancer once and for all. Join the Army of Women today!
This is an amazing and critical step forward to stop the tragedy of breast cancer, and it’s something that every healthy woman out there can make a difference in - beyond wearing pink, beyond walking and running, beyond just writing a check!
Each and every one of you should sign up for this easy and simple task: get your name on a list, so that when a study comes up and you fit the criteria, you’ll be notified to provide a simple blood or urine sample. This sample will be sent to the researchers and, with enough of them, we can and consign breast cancer to the dust bin of history.
Please, this will take just a couple minutes of your time today, go to the following website and sign up right now:
One note from maven: As wonderful as a cure and even the eventual prevention of breast cancer will be, there’s still one stumbling block. It’s called access.
You can have all the great cures and preventative medicine in the world, but until each and every woman in American has equal access to quality medical care, without the roadblocks of no health insurance, under-insured status, obstructionist health insurance that limits her care choices to the local town or a single provider - then it’s all just a dream.
This year approximately 40,000 women will die from breast cancer - that’s about 110 women each day. I’ve lost enough friends to this disease, and I wake up each and every morning grateful that the other shoe hasn’t dropped and my cancer hasn’t come back.
I’m one of the very lucky ones. At my time of diagnosis, I HAD great health insurance and go anywhere - in my case to the University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston ( one of the first Comprehensive Cancer Centers). My insurance, due to market forces with my husbands’ company that he retired from, has become less in coverage and higher in price.
Just this year, I got to know a woman with a highly suspicious mammogram that was in between insurance coverage due to a job change. She had to wait months to be able to get the needed followup, and each day of waiting must have been hell. Let’s get the health insurance monkey off the back of business, and put it where it belongs - in the hands of government and the people. Socialism? Maybe - just like the Veterans’ Administration, Medicare, Medicaid, Tri-Star ( for retired military and their families) and what members of Congress get.
If that’s Socialism, then let’s embrace it and make it the best on earth!
maven