Sister Study

So, have you heard about the Army of Women? Here’s a blurb I copied from their website:

The Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation and the Avon Foundation, a global leader in breast cancer research, joined forces to launch the Love/Avon Army of Women.

Our revolutionary initiative has two key goals:

* To recruit one million healthy women of every age and ethnicity, including breast cancer survivors and women at high-risk for the disease, to partner with breast cancer researchers and directly participate in the research that will eradicate breast cancer once and for all.
* To challenge the scientific community to expand its current focus to include breast cancer prevention research conducted on healthy women.

Join us in this movement that will take us beyond a cure by creating new opportunities to study what causes breast cancer—and how to prevent it.

Look for my new Army of Women widget, over in my sidebar!

Right now, Army of Women is looking for sisters of women who have had breast cancer. This research project needs African American women to be completed. Can you help?

March 29, 2009 If you would like to sign up for this study, please click here: Sister Study. Be sure to scroll down until you see “THE SISTER STUDY: A STUDY OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL AND GENETIC RISK FACTORS FOR BREAST CANCER”

A Breast Cancer Vaccine?

At a family get together last weekend, my cousin commented that Lily was a little Ginny. She favors me, while Emmy seems to favor Ed. The decision to have children was easy for me; as I have mentioned before I always wanted to be a mother. But I do worry that I have passed on the breast cancer gene to my girls, even though I haven’t had any genetic testing. (After my mom recovers from her latest bout of cancer, she plans to be tested, and then I will be tested when we have her information.) This news story gives me great hope that by the time Lily and Emmy grow up, breast cancer will never be a reality for them. Check it out: Searching for a Breast Cancer Vaccine. Both my mom and I have/had hormone receptive cancer, which I believe is the cancer that this experimental treatment attacks. I’m so excited about this latest medical research!