We are two thirds done with Pinktober, aka breast cancer awareness month. I used to feel really good every October, participating in a local benefit, buying pink things, and usually remembering to do a couple of self exams. Now, as a survivor, I experience a level of anxiety and aggravation everywhere I go. I am reminded daily (or more) of the monster I still carry on my back. I can't shake the fear and worry about my own health for the future. I also struggle with the increasing "overawareness" of this disease. Cancer, particularly breast cancer, is BIG business. People make so incredibly much money off of something that nearly destroyed me and my family and takes wonderful, amazing women out every single day. What's worse are all the people that think buying something with a pink label on it actually helps. It isn't the people I judge, but the companies who pinkwash their goods in the name of awareness, without donating one red cent to the cause.
Anyhow, my point of this post was not to complain about the month of October (which include my amazing son's birthday AND Halloween, who couldn't love that?)... But to share with you that there is a vaccine in the works for triple negative breast cancer! It is moving into clinical trials for humans in 2015. AMAZING! Exciting! Here's who I learned about it from:
http://triplenegativebc.blogspot.com/2013/10/more-developments-on-vaccine.html
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