Don't know if separate groups ultimately benefit all parties. I mean, even in this group we have men and women, straight and gay, those with children and those without. Those two groups can be further divided by those with supportive children and those with ratbags. Then in the childless camp, those thus by choice and those by circumstance. There are those who have chemo and those who don't. Ditto radiotherapy. Those who have surgery and those who don't...again the first subdivided into lumpectomy, one boob and two boobs. The difference between us all is great on so many levels, but the things which unite us are far greater. We all have or have had breast cancer. We are all individual, both in our bodies and our souls. We all bleed red blood. We all feel the same responses to being made to feel different or not included. If we all end up in a multitude of separate groups, how will we understand and thus support those in other groups? I think free and diverse discussions such as this one openly air the concerns that some smaller demographics may have. Knowledge makes us more powerful, whereas ignorance of certain conditions or facts doesn't.
