CBS bladder cancer story

Bladder Cancer Advocates Wanted!!

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Thank you.


Ed K.

Carla you really did not hit a nerve you gave me reason to reply. We welcome you whole heartedly and need everyone to do what they can.

Susan Korman has through money and political clout done incredible things for breast cancer and are to be used as a model for what can be done.

We are dealing with a cancer that is not a popular one to talk about and that is a hurdle we have to overcome. Besides that we have a cancer that is given very little money even though it is the fifth most common in men and the eighth in woman, more woman will die of it this year in the USA than cervical cancer, with high reoccurrence ratse and is the most expensive malignancy to treat. (Bladder cancer has the highest reoccurrence rate of any malignancy when it is non invasive but the reoccurrence rate decline following radical cystectomy dependent on stage.)

The point I was trying to make is what we are trying to build here is a community and it will take a community working to get the job done. We cannot all do the same things but it takes no money to call your local TV station or newspaper and give them the low down on bladder cancer and the American Bladder Cancers Society's contact information. That is what I meant about making noise there are half a million bladder cancer survivors in the USA and that does not count the people that care about them. Can you imagine what would happen if we all picked a week and called all of our elected officials and asked them why it gets so little attention and money once the facts are known?

I am sorry if by my post I made anyone feel that I was directing any comment at them that is not at all the case I was just voicing an opinion. Please forgive me if I get passionate about this subject but the fact is I am.