It's sad how we're duped into believing we're doing something good because the word "awareness" is attached to a serious disease - while corporations make millions.
In sum: While we need to find a cure, the best thing is to prevent breast cancer in the first place. Awareness is not a cure. Mammograms are not a cure. Surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation are not prevention. Prevention is possible by discovering and eliminating the cause(s). We are already aware of the thousands of carcinogens (in case you didn't know, carcinogen means "causes cancer") in our world; we need to work to avoid and eliminate them. The biggest obstacle to eliminating breast cancer: there is no money to be made in prevention.
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I absolutely agree with you. There is a great deal of money to be made in this "culture of victimhood," as Calvin and Hobbes referred to it. These types of campaigns to raise "awareness" are really meant to create fear. They exacerbate the problem and prevent people from taking personal responsibility for their health and well-being.
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