2024 World Cancer Day

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 a record high of over 2 million new cancer cases will be diagnosed in 2024, and over 611,720 Americans will die of cancer in 2024. This is almost 8 times the number of opioid deaths (80,411 per CDC), but cancer has never been declared a crisis or an epidemic. Why not? It is a crisis for cancer patients, their families and friends. Have we grown so accustomed to people dying of cancer that it no longer shocks us? This must change. 1 in 2 people will develop some form of cancer during their lifetime.

Please support cancer research and donate if you can. My favorite organizations funding cancer research are the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, The Pink Agenda, and the Dancers Care Foundation.
@bcrfcure @thepinkagenda@dancerscarefoundation
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