Back to the matter at hand \u2013 if you\u2019ve follow me on Facebook you\u2019d have seen this post Thursday night<\/p>\n
Backstory \u2013 Shane Crawford did a walk from Melbourne to Adelaide last year to raise money for Breast Cancer. Thursday on the AFL Footy Show he announced he was doing a bike ride from Melbourne to Perth, again raising money for Breast Cancer. This started my little rant on Facebook. I do think breast cancer is tragic and I wouldn\u2019t wish it on my worst enemy BUT I get so sick of hearing about it and all the fundraising centred around breast cancer.<\/p>\n You hardly ever hear anything about other cancers (maybe with the exception of skin cancers in summer) and that really annoys me. It\u2019s like all other cancers are lesser cancers. According to the Cancer Council website the most common cancers in Australia (excluding non-melanoma skin cancer) are prostate, colorectal (bowel), breast, melanoma and lung cancer. These five cancers account for over 60% of all cancers diagnosed in Australia. Why don\u2019t we hear more about these other types of cancers? Why don\u2019t we hear more about other women\u2019s cancers like cervical & ovarian? Ovarian cancer is the eighth most common cancer and the sixth most common cause of cancer death affecting women in Australia. <\/p>\n I\u2019d love to see more companies\/sports clubs\/celebrities\/TV shows stand up and say there is more than just breast cancer and we\u2019re here to support & raise money\/awareness of these other types of cancers.<\/p>\n When events like White Shite Day<\/a>, Afternoon Teal<\/a>, Frocktober<\/a>, Relay for Life<\/a> and others get more national coverage it\u2019ll be a great thing.<\/p>\n Do you support and cancer fundraising events? If so which ones?<\/p>\n (and I\u2019m behind on posting daily again) You know what really gets my goat? For one that saying \u2013 what does it even mean? Well there you go. Public service for the day Back to the matter at hand \u2013 if you\u2019ve follow me on Facebook you\u2019d have seen this post Thursday night Backstory \u2013 … Continue reading “On my soapbox”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-4839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-challenges","tag-blog-every-day-in-may"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"image\"](\"http:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/image_thumb.png\" "\\"image\\"")
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