Please Wear Pink

   When people wear pink in the month of October there are a lot of people who do not understand what it symbolizes. My grandmother passed away in 2000 from breast cancer and my aunt just recently found out she had symptoms of it. I would like for everyone to relize the meaning of wearing pink so it can help to support the victoms of this monstourous disease.
    Breast cancer is cancer that forms in tissues of the breast, usually the tubes that carry milk to the nipple and glands that make milk. It occurs in both men and women, although male breast cancer is rare.There are "226,870 new female cases of it and 2,190 male cases". There are reported "39,510 deaths out of those 226,870 female cases and 410 deaths out of the male cases"."There are many treatments, including surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, immunotherapy, and vaccine therapy". Those therapys are known to treat the cancer but not fully demolish it. my grandmother fought cancer the first time with her treatments but, the second time she got breast cancer and she was not strong enough to fight it. My aunt caught the syntoms quick enough that she could prevent having to take chemotherapy or radiation. The doctors said that breast cancer can be passed down through generations so my mom and sister have been very cautious about their health. Also breast cancer can not be treated until symtoms are shown so there is not much you can do if the cancer is passed down through genetics.
   Breast cancer is a very scary thing even if you have not expirienced it. So if you would just wear pink in the month of october to show that you care and you are there to help, it would make patients with breast cancer feel more secure and less likley to die. Also wearing pink supports a cure for the viciuous cancer, so maybe someday there will be a cure.

http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/types/breast