World Cancer Day 2021

Today is World Cancer Day. Its mission is to promote research and to make access to life-saving cancer diagnoses, treatment, and care available to everyone – regardless of income, ethnicity, gender, or geographic location. I am alive today because I have the good fortune to live in an area where top medical care is available. Cancer does not discriminate and cancer treatments also should not discriminate.

NIH statistics indicate that 1.9 million new cancer cases will be diagnosed in 2021, and over 608,570 Americans will die of cancer in 2021. Approximately 281,550 new cases of female breast cancer will be diagnosed in 2021, and 43,600 female patients are expected to die.

COVID-19 has had a profound effect on cancer patients. Diagnostic testing, surgical procedures, treatments, and doctor visits may be delayed. Cancer clinical trials have been affected with 60% halting screening and enrollment according to the American Cancer Society. I understand the need for COVID research, but cancer is also killing people and cancer patients are at greater risk of getting COVID.

Please support cancer research and donate if you can. . My favorite organizations funding cancer research are The Pink Agenda for breast cancer and the Dancers Care Foundation for all types of cancer.

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