According to this article the money spent on Breast Cancer research is nearing 1.2% of the total money spent in Iraq!! But joking aside, that’s a pretty penny going toward one cause, so I command those of you who have played your part.

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I suggest you read the original article, but I want to point out some parts I found pretty interesting.

“There will be an international emphasis this year including a September summit in Budapest […] The event will pair 25 U.S. activists with 25 people from around the world to look at the social, cultural and financial circumstances that prevent women from getting quality breast health care and treatment.”

I find that to be pretty exciting, actually I hope it goes really well and maybe that sort of logic can be used to solve a host of other issues outside of Breast Cancer. I’m interested in what answers they will arrive at; surely cultural and financial borders play a large part in those who get treatment globally, but hopefully they will arrive at more dissimulated causes.

This sort of international commitment to a common goal is quite uplifting this day and age. It’s one of those necessary global baby steps that gets taken every now and again. I also found it interesting was their (The Komen Org) belief in “changing the culture” of how research and fund-raising is approached. As obviously successful as that idea is, it’s also something extraordinarily hard to implement. Of the myriad organizations out there it is startling that a single person sparked one that is so dominant.

But as with all good news there is not so good news as its dance partner. This isn’t exactly bad news, maybe just “lesser news” or “eh news.” The end of the article noted that about one in eight women will get breast cancer, which to me seems like a lot still. Also, another report shows that around one-million fewer women are getting a mammogram each year.

Any thoughts on what may be causing that?

All in all research has definitely hit a milestone, and it will hit another one sooner than later.

—Kabari