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Cancer Awareness and how it effects us. As many of you know this disease effects many lives around the world. Men and women and children are effected by this in so many different ways. You can make a small difference by clicking the ribbon below. 
Click the ribbon every day and click on the pink "Fund Free Mammograms" button to help fund free mammograms for homeless, low-income women. It costs you nothing to help make early detection and survival possible. Funding is paid by site sponsors and goes to the nonprofit National Breast Cancer Foundation, who uses it to grant access to mammography to women in need. You can click once per day. More information below. Cancer Tests Don't Reach 4 of 5
Needy Women While the search for better cancer treatments rushes forward in many laboratories, two discoveries that are already proven life-savers are still not reaching all the women that need them. Mammograms and Pap tests can find breast and cervical cancer early, before any noticeable symptoms, when treatments are most successful. But for women with no health insurance, poor insurance policies, between jobs, or at low income levels, these routine tests cost too much. And the government program currently in place to help these women get these tests on schedule is struggling. It's estimated that current funding allows only 1 out of 5 needy women who qualify for the nation's free mammogram and Pap test program to get these life-saving tests. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‘s National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP) is currently running and saving lives in all 50 states. But it needs more funding to serve all eligible women. “Each [state] program contracts with health care service providers,” said Lori Belle-Isle, regional planning director for health promotions at the American Cancer Society. “The service is free to the patients.” With more than 21,000 service sites throughout the United States, women who are subsequently diagnosed with breast or cervical cancer through the program are eligible for treatment through Medicaid under the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Treatment Act, a law the Society helped pass Below are some blinkies made for this reason,please use them in posts to show your support and if possible link them to the site for others to click a day too. 
more blinkies to follow.... Tags also here 
So many are touched by this disease, some within our community too so let us show those effected how important this issue is and click today. Also if you are one for pray then say a small prayer too for those going through this right now, pray for them to give them strength, and love and support throughout the trials of this challenge they all face. Here are a few sites I found on my research travels, please take a look. http://www.cancer.org/docroot/home/index.asp?level=0 http://www.nbcam.org/ http://www.macmillan.org.uk/ http://www.prostate-cancer.org.uk/ http://www.everyone.freeuk.com/cancer/ http://www.wcn.org/ http://www.nccc-online.org/ Show your support please. Thankyou for reading and supporting us in this. October is Cancer Awareness Month so please Support and also promote this in other groups. | 
