Breast Cancer Awareness Month

While we may never forget about the dangers of breast cancer, October is a time not only to remember and raise awareness but to involve as many people as possible in the fight. Anybody who’s suffered at the cruel hands of breast cancer knows the benefits of awareness for treatment, just as anybody who has lost a loved one knows how overwhelming the grief can be. With raised awareness comes raised funds and hope; the more research that is funded leads to more treatments and help for those stricken by the disease. Besides the search for the cure, breast cancer awareness involves people in helping those that need it most. Wigs for women are made more readily available and funding is obtained to help the sick with their bills and their treatment while they’re unable to take care of it themselves. The fight for the cure leads to many beautiful people reaching out to one another for a cause bigger than any one person.

When they say Think Pink, they mean it. With pink ribbons, packaging and even food becoming all the rage during October people are able to recognize what products and companies are helping the cause. Typically if someone spends money then they’d prefer to spend it in a philanthropic way that helps their fellow man. Searching for a cure is of the utmost importance when it comes to breast cancer awareness month but it is about more than that. It’s about coming together in solidarity for all the victims not just to put a stop to it, but to help them cope with the huge burden on their shoulders. There’s more to helping then funding wigs for women; there’s treatment, research, and above all the message that breast cancer strikes those from all walks of life. Everybody needs to learn how to recognize changes in their own body and keep themselves up to date with doctors’ visits for preventative care. The best way we have right now to battle breast cancer is to nip it in the bud with early detection.

October ushers out summer and brings in the new season of fall. Perhaps this is a fitting metaphor for breast cancer awareness; it’s time to sweep away the old and continue to find new and innovative ways to battle a disease that human kind hopes to one day eradicate. This month is one that raises not only money, but also morale and support for a cause everyone can get behind: the cause of the right to life. The diagnosis of cancer is not an easy one, but the burden can be made lighter through a network of people coming together to battle as one. This is the spirit of breast cancer awareness month. Research, assistance, morale and more are things sought after by a month dedicated to finding a cure. It’s a testament to the enduring spirit of all people and is a shining way that to prove time and time again that we are one and will stand together even in the face of something as frightening as cancer.