Blog Action Day Post: Poverty and Breast Cancer
October 15, 2008 by Karen Lynch
Filed under Women's Health
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It’s Blog Action Day and the topic is Poverty.
What is Blog Action Day, you ask? I’ll tell you. Directly from the main Blog Action Day 2008 website, Blog Action is:
An annual nonprofit event that aims to unite the world’s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, to post about the same issue on the same day. Our aim is to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion.
So yeah, the topic is poverty … and since those living in poverty have a higher mortality rate if diagnosed with breast cancer, I’d say it’s a real issue.
“Poor persons, regardless of their race, are likely to have undesirable cancer outcomes,” said Cathy J. Bradley, associate professor in Michigan State University’s Department of Medicine and lead author of a 2002 study that found that poverty was key to late-stage breast cancer diagnosis and poor survival.
After adjusting for race and other factors, the researchers determined that low-income women were 41 percent more likely to be diagnosed with late-stage breast cancer and were three times more likely to die than women who were not considered low income.
Do you wonder why this is or can you take an educated guess?
Well, for one, women living in poverty are less apt to get regular mammograms. I imagine that’s driven by two things:
- They do not have insurance to cover the cost of mammography. Without insurance, they certainly aren’t going to go for such an expensive diagnostic procedure.
- They lack education and likely aren’t exposed to as information about breast cancer, its diagnosis, its treatment and the overall benefit of early detection (and life saving benefit of mammography).
Poverty. Let’s face it, if you’re reading this, you’re on a computer … so you aren’t impoverished.
So don’t just count your blessings (though you should do that). Click here to fund free mammograms for women who truly cannot afford them.
visited your link, and clicked.
thanks for the heads up. i’ve visited the hunger site, but i never really noticed the tabs. :O me = dufus. 
in addition, i also turn to sites like freerice, kiva, and goodsearch, as ways to help alleviate poverty online.
saw this post via the front page of blog action day. it’s great that you’re participating.
From Karen Lynch: Thanks for visiting me here today. And thanks for the site references; I’m sure some of my other readers will find it in their hearts to visit those as well!
Visiting The Breast Cancer Site and clicking to help donate free mammograms has been part of my morning routine for almost two years now. (I discovered it when I saw the link for The Literacy Site on someone’s blog.) I wish everyone would do it. It’s so quick and easy, and they even send you daily reminders – there’s no excuse not to!
From Karen Lynch: Alicia, I think I remember seeing posts on your blog about this very thing. Thank you so much … it’s a good idea to make it part of your daily routine. I get the email reminders myself and that helps!
How are you?, Do something to help the hungry people from Africa and India,
I added this blog about that subject:
on http://tinyurl.com/6p6lb8
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