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They’re Real–Keep Them Spectacular

Posted on October 22, 2012 by
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October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month in the U.S. and if you are a human being with breasts or a fan of same, be aware.  About 226,000 new cases are diagnosed each year and nearly 40,000 women die of breast cancer annually. Just as a point of reference, about 32,000 Americans die in car accidents every year.

And by the way, while men generally think of breast cancer as something their wives and mothers get, that is not always the case—men can get breast cancer too.  The number of new cases is small (1% of breast cancers occur in men), but male breast cancer gets diagnosed about 2000 times per year and 400 men die each year from breast cancer.  A close friend of my family, young and healthy (albeit with an unhealthy fascination with Bucky Badger), found out he had breast cancer earlier this year and had to go through the same miserable experience that so many women endure—surgery, chemo, the whole nine yards.  Since he was one of the few men over 50 who hadn’t already lost his hair, he got stuck with that too.   … (read the rest)

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Are You Dense?

Posted on November 10, 2011 by
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Sometimes comedy and healthcare collide. I caught an episode of the Ellen DeGeneres Show recently where her guest that day was one of my favorite comedians, Wanda Sykes. Sykes was there, in part, to discuss her recent battle with breast cancer, a disease she found out she had quite by accident. Apparently Sykes had gone in for a voluntary cosmetic breast reduction (this is the cue for men everywhere to gasp in horror) and after the procedure it was discovered that the tissue removed, which is routinely examined after such procedures, was cancerous.

If you have extra time, you can watch the actual 4 and a half minute Ellen-Wanda interview by clicking HERE.

In the interview, Sykes talked about how, given her personal risk factors for breast cancer and her unwillingness to live fearing it’s sudden return, she decided to undergo a prophylactic double mastectomy in order to ensure she would not end up with breast cancer in the future.  It is an extreme decision, but one that is being taken more often by women willing to trade off body parts to avoid living in fear and submitting to … (read the rest)

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October: Big Bird, Baseball and Breast Cancer

Posted on October 29, 2010 by
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I thought I had seen it all until I saw the “sexy” Sesame Street costumes that are new this year for Halloween.  You too can be amazingly slut-tastic as Elmo, Big Bird or Cookie Monster while you troll the street for candy.  More of a Pixar fan? How about sexy Nemo from Finding Nemo fame?

More of a baseball fan in this season of Giants glory? How about a Yankee babe inviting you to take one for the team?  Talk about a stand-up double.

Has anyone noticed the irony that all of these characters were male before their costumes were paired with thigh-high tights?

I guess it’s only fitting that everyone seems to look like the St. Pauli Girl in October given that it is not only Halloween, but also National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.  While I had been planning to write something about National Breast Cancer Awareness Month for the last several weeks, it kept slipping my mind until the, ahem, “evidence” was too difficult to ignore.  Big Bird with cleavage? Don’t those airbags interfere with flight?  But seriously folks…

There is a great deal of coverage of National … (read the rest)

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