The High Price of Awareness
Today, every popular female on facebook participated in something fantastic. They cured breast cancer.
No, I'm sorry. I'm joking, they didn't cure cancer. Instead what they did - and this is not a joke - was post their bra color as their status in an effort to bring awareness to this disease.
Now, I won't lie, its a noble effort to bring awareness to unknown, debilitating, diseases. But that being said, breast cancer isn't unknown. If anything it is one of the most well known diseases on the face of the planet.
The problem with breast cancer, like with all cancers, is that its cancer. When you're diagnosed there are no assurances - even with early detection - you will survive; that's simply the sad state of cancer research.
I understand that, at this point, I'm going to be ridiculed, harassed, and so forth for this post but I cannot help but feeling as if this act won't accomplish anything - because it won't. All it will do is make you feel as if you're accomplishing something - in the absolute laziest way possible.
If you're like me - that is to say you have no medical experience at all - to really help cancer research you should be donating money or what skills you do have to research organizations. That will go a lot further in really making people's lives better.