Roxy wants your attention, please.
The Great Dane is the face behind Collars for Cures, a company recently launched by a couple in Hollywood, Chris and Erica Nelson. They’ll donate 50% of all profits from collars sold to promote a cure for cancer via research by the American Association for Cancer Research Foundation (AACR).

CollarsForCures.com offers pet collars and human t-shirts in five sizes. Whether you’re hooking up a cat or  Great Dane, Collars for Cures will likely have the size you need.

Chris said that since Roxy garners attention nearly everywhere they go, he wanted to utilize that to help fight cancer, …read more

Although the population in the United States is aging, it seems that deaths due to cancer are dropping, say researchers. This decline has been occurring over the past 50 years.
A study published recently in the journal Cancer Research said:
Age-specific cancer mortality rates have been steadily declining in the United States since the early 1950s, beginning with children and young adults and now including all age groups. During the second half of the 20th century, each successive decade of births from 1925 to 1995 experienced a lower risk of cancer death than its predecessor at virtually every age for which such …read more

Please join me in being very excited about this!  The Art Doll that our group, Ties That Bind, created is ready for raffling.  We’re attempting to raise as much money as possible for Ovarian Cancer research.  It seems amazing to me that it was one year ago that we started this project.  Thanks to the tireless efforts of Aileen Roberts, Jan Brown, and others, we’re already anticipating great success.
Tickets can be purchased until September 30, 2009.

Image: Ties That Bind

If you’re a Target shopper, you know that they give money to charities.
Now is your chance to help Target decide how to distribute $3 million to charities. There are plenty of great choices, and some of them are related to heath care. 

Go to Target’s Facebook page to vote once per day until May 25.

Voting choices include:
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital (Must admit to voting for this one as they saved my younger brother’s life!)
Breast Cancer Research Foundation
Feeding America
HandOn Network
Kids in Need
National Park Foundation
Operation Gratitude
Parent Teacher Association (PTA)
Red Cross
Salvation Army
If you want to learn more about each choice, click on their …read more

No matter what side of the aisle your political passions reside, it must give you pause for reflection and awe — after watching Elizabeth, with Senator Edwards at her side.
She announced that cancer was detected, that it probably had spread and that it is incurable.
Not curable, but treatable.
Which tells us that from now on, our National lexicon about Cancer may have changed.
When we hear the word Cancer…we might discuss it with our loved ones in a different way…in much the same way as we discuss Diabetes.
In other words, it might be possible for Ms. Edwards to live with Cancer, operative …read more