Recent news reports state that Laura Bush and Margarita Zavala, first lady of Mexico, are banding together to educate Mexican women about breast cancer. Positive Hope applauds their efforts as many Mexican women are either ashamed or too poor to get breast cancer care. We hope that this is the first of partnerships with many countries to educate women about breast cancer.

However, there are many here in the United States who need education and access to care as well. We need to ensure that our own poor, disadvantaged, and rural women get the education and care they need as well. The Florida Breast Cancer Coalition Research Foundation gives grants each year to education groups within the State of Florida who address the needs of Florida Women. Many other states have similar programs.

Anyone reading this blog has been touched by breast cancer. I would urge you to take the next step: instead of just concentrating on your own situation, figure out how you can share what you have learned with others. Perhaps you could give a ride to someone else in your own community when you go for treatment. Perhaps you can pass on your wigs and bras and scarves to someone else in need or give them to local centers to distribute. Perhaps you can volunteer to help in a chemo or radiation lab to show others that they can get through their treatment, too.

I'd urge you to join your own state organization that works to end breast cancer. If you're in Florida, please join the Florida Breast Cancer Coalition Research Foundation (www.fbccrf.org) to work to end breast cancer through advocacy, education, and research. Sign up for our Alert Network so you can lobby our senators and congress people about legislation that affects breast cancer and access to quality health care for all. Give a few hours a month to put our literature in tag agencies to raise awareness of the "End Breast Cancer" license plate which gives $25 of the $27 specialty plate fee to FBCCRF for grants for research and education. Write me to see how else you can be involved.

Together we can end breast cancer - and give others Positive Hope!

 

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